Why I don't read Thomas Friedman

His column yesterday starts out:

There's only one thing you can say about the elections in Iraq: They are either going to be the end of the beginning there or the beginning of the end.

First off, that sounds like two things, not one. Secondly, if that is/are the only thing(s) you can say about the elections, Thomas, what are all those other paragraphs in your column about?