https://www.moonofalabama.org/2017/11/turning-the-corner-in-afghanistan.html https://www.moonofalabama.org/2017/11/turning-the-corner-in-... - The Friedman Un

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2017/11/turning-the-corner-in-afghanistan.html https://www.moonofalabama.org/2017/11/turning-the-corner-in-... - 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. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedman_Unit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedman_Unit