Is Friedman intermittently retarded?

This is a bit old, but what the hell...

Not a bad column (not great either), until he gets to this:

We may lose because most Europeans, having been made stupid by their own weakness, would rather see America fail in Iraq than lift a finger for free and fair elections there.

I think Friedman might have been one of those kids in grade school who wanted to hang out with the cool kids so much that he helped them with their homework no matter how often they gave him wedgies or rubbed his face in the snow. There really is no other way to account for his line of thinking that the Europeans would help us on our terms in spite of how poorly we have treated them these past four years.

Let's face it... they aren't going to help because it is not their problem.