Earlier this week, we wrote about Tom Friedman’s column of doom. Our friend Tom argued that the new US requirement for visa applicants to submit fingerprints would cause all would be visitors, especially young Europeans, from ever going to the US again. We mentioned the development to one young European yesterday. Her response?

“Yeah, I had to give my fingerprints for my Japan visa a few years back.”

As soon as we find one young European who vows never to go to the US over this, we’ll let you know.