This is an fantastic article on how important it is to dig beyond the headlines whenever statistics are used. Tom Friedman is an excellent synthesizer. In fact his synthesis of our modern times as described in The World is Flat was well done and moved a lot of folks to think in a more worldly manner.
However, we’re now at a point in our history where it’s the details, not the synthesis that matters and on these details Friedman just misses.
