Brilliant piece.
Another of my favourite editorial writers is Thomas Friedman. Friedman has won the Pulitzer Prize three times, and currently writes a weekly column for The New York Times. Friedman has written extensively on foreign affairs, global trade, the Middle East, globalization, and environmental issues. He is, by any definition of the word, a learned man, a well-educated man. His post-debate column yesterday is the best I have read. I will share the first part with you here, but I strongly urge you to go read the entire column for yourselves.
Trump? How Could We? By Thomas Friedman
“My reaction to the Donald Trump-Hillary Clinton debate can be summarized with one word: “How?”
How in the world do we put a man in the Oval Office who thinks NATO is a shopping mall where the tenants aren’t paying enough rent to the U.S. landlord?
NATO is not a shopping mall; it…
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hughcurtler 
Even though you did not write it, I laughed at “NATO is not a shopping mall.’
It’s been a long day /a long month – new owners of theproperty arrived last night, and all is going well – but it’s nice t catch up as well as have an unexpected chuckle!
Good to hear from you. It is a brilliant piece of writing!
Love it. And all so true!