A Trump supporter? Ooh, that's low. 
John, don't doubt that I have read all the msm organs over the years and there are few that are not agenda-driven, including the royal family of Qatar's- owned al-Jazeera who have much at stake in the outcome of the war in Syria (a pipeline-R.O.W.-driven affair) -
http://armedforcesjournal.com/pipeline-politics-in-syria/
The thing is, I read both sides, can you say the same? And what Friedman consistently presents is a neocon-driven agenda and he's paid handsomely to spew for the MIC and the establishment. 
When calling Putin a KGB thug, what does that say about our CIA torturers and fomenters of revolution going back to the early 1950s? Why is Iran is such a foe? That would be Mossadegh in 1953, I reckon. Google PNAC for some further treats.
Speaking of Normandy, we lost 400,000 in WW II, the Russians 27 million. One reason they are so relatively few and have long memories.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/01/29/the-demonization-of-vladimir-putin/