Moving the Goalpost

Well, it looks like little Tommy Friedman has provided his own "shorter Tom Friedman" in the concluding graf of his latest:

That is so wrong. We may not get a better Iraq out of this war, but let's at least make sure we get a better America.

The bulk of the article is about how there should be an increase in the gasoline tax, a proposal with about as much popular support as would one to impose mandatory sterilization of everyone except African-Americans.