Thomas Friedman spends the first half of his column today expressing his heartfelt wish that ordinary Pakistanis will take to the streets in solidarity with the victims of the Mumbai Massacre.

And he asks a fair question: "When Pakistanis and other Muslims are willing to take to the streets, even suffer death, to protest an insulting cartoon published in Denmark, is it fair to ask: Who in the Muslim world, who in Pakistan, is ready to take to the streets to protest the mass murders of real people, not cartoon characters, right next door in Mumbai?"

But then - inexplicably - Friedman gives his reason for why, in case we've forgotten, he is "still hoping - just once - for that mass demonstration of 'ordinary people' against the Mumbai bombers, not for my sake, not for India’s sake, but for Pakistan’s sake." That reason? "Because it takes a village."

Let me know if you agreed with the rest of the column. I couldn't read on after that.