Editing Thomas L. Friedman (section)

===Kosovo War===
During the [[1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia]], Friedman wrote the following in ''The New York Times'' on April 23, 1999: "Like it or not, we are at war with the Serbian nation (the Serbs certainly think so), and the stakes have to be very clear: Every week you ravage Kosovo is another decade we will set your country back by pulverizing you. You want 1950? We can do 1950. You want [[Battle of Kosovo|1389]]? We can do 1389 too." Friedman urged the US to destroy "in Belgrade: every power grid, water pipe, bridge [and] road", annex Albania and Macedonia as "U.S. protectorates", "occupy the Balkans for years",  and "[g]ive war a chance."<ref>{{cite news|author=Thomas Friedman|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/04/23/opinion/foreign-affairs-stop-the-music.html|title=Stop the Music|newspaper=The New York Times|date=April 23, 1999|access-date=February 13, 2017|archive-date=December 23, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201223031604/https://www.nytimes.com/1999/04/23/opinion/foreign-affairs-stop-the-music.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

[[Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting]] (FAIR) labeled Friedman's remarks "war-mongering" and "crude race-hatred and war-crime agitation".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2941 |title=CPJ Declares Open Season on Thomas Friedman|website= Fair.org}}</ref> Steve Chapman, critical of the response taken by NATO, referred to Friedman as "the most fervent supporter of the air war" and ironically asked in the ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'': "Why stop at 1389? Why not revive the idea, proposed but never adopted in Vietnam, of bombing the enemy all the way back to the Stone Age?"<ref>{{cite news |author=Steve Chapman |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1999/04/29/a-war-against-all-of-the-serbs/ |title=A War Against All Of The Serbs |newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]] |date=April 29, 1999 |access-date=May 1, 2013 |archive-date=November 3, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131103113452/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1999-04-29/news/9904290059_1_nato-serbian-civilians |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Norman Solomon]] asserted in 2007 that "a tone of sadism could be discerned" in Friedman's article.<ref>{{cite news | first=Norman | last=Solomon | url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/thomas-friedman-hooked-on_b_63368 | title=Thomas Friedman: Hooked on War | work=[[HuffPost]] | date=September 6, 2007 | access-date=April 26, 2020 | archive-date=December 23, 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201223031610/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/thomas-friedman-hooked-on_b_63368 | url-status=live }}</ref>