Yesterday, NYT columnist Thomas L. Friedman noted that for all of the polls documenting the decline in American popularity around the world under President Bush, people in those countries might want to consider the alternative — a world of too much Russian and Chinese power. Glenn Greenwald (a/k/a “Rick Ellensburg,” “Thomas Ellers,” “Ellison,” “Wilson” and “Ryan”) flailed at Friedman with his typically overwrought prose, arguing that the US is unpopular because it enagaged in unprovoked wars