Even the better writers sometimes goof.
Today it’s the turn of Thomas L Friedman in The New York Times with this bit lifted from today’s column on Iraq:
We overpaid in lives, in the wounded, in tarnished values, in dollars and in the lost focus on America’s development. Iraqis, of course, paid dearly as well.
Now the column is, of course, about America’s involvement and what we, and the world, can hope for in the future; but to use the cavalier of course makes Friedman seem a tad dismissive of the terrible times inflicted upon the Iraqis in our name.
“Of course” is just too casual and clichéd to be used in such a serious matter.
Sheesh!
Trust, but verify. (And that means edit yourself, Tom.)
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