Friedman Unit

The Friedman Unit, or simply Friedman,^[1] is a tongue-in-cheek neologism. One Friedman Unit is equal to six months,^[2] specifically the "next six months", a period repeatedly declared by New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman to be the most critical of the then-ongoing Iraq War^[3] even though such pronouncements extended back over two and a half years.

^ "Gen. Petreaus is in". ThinkProgress. Center for American Progress. February 28, 2007. Retrieved May 22, 2007. Note: the General's name is Petraeus.
^ Klein, Ezra (December 8, 2006). "TAPPED". The American Prospect. Archived from the original on September 30, 2007. Retrieved March 18, 2007.
^ Mitchell, Greg (2008). So Wrong for So Long: How the Press, the Pundits – and the President – Failed on Iraq. Union Square Press/Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. pp. 177–79. ISBN 9781402756573.

[think1-1] "Gen. Petreaus is in". ThinkProgress. Center for American Progress. February 28, 2007. Retrieved May 22, 2007. Note: the General's name is Petraeus.

[Klein-2] Klein, Ezra (December 8, 2006). "TAPPED". The American Prospect. Archived from the original on September 30, 2007. Retrieved March 18, 2007.

[wrong-3] Mitchell, Greg (2008). So Wrong for So Long: How the Press, the Pundits – and the President – Failed on Iraq. Union Square Press/Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. pp. 177–79. ISBN 9781402756573.

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