Doubling Down

There are basically two ways to react to the news that something you vociferously advocated for turned out to be a really, really bad idea: you can either admit your mistake and learn from it, or you can double down. Here’s Tom Friedman doubling down:

It’s been a while since I’ve heard someone so intelligent say so many breathtakingly unintelligent things. Did one of our most high-profile pundits really say “Hey terrorists, suck on this?” Yes, yes he did. Did he just draw a painfully weak, attenuated analogy between economic bubbles and “terrorist bubbles”? Indeed. Can this possibly be the same guy who wrote From Beirut to Jerusalem? Somehow, it is.

(via Eschaton)