Posted on 04/26/2002 5:31:50 AM PDT by Pokey78
Mark Steyn has given us another "keeper".
Really?
I'll have to remember that next time I'm inclined to flame him. If he's anti-French he can't be all bad.
'Tis not a joke. It's dialect.
I'm from Wexford in the south east...a land of Republicans (but not in the American sense *L*), but we mainly speak Munster Irish.
Then you have Galway people. They speak the Connemara dialect.
And THEN you have Donegal, the most difficult dialect of them all to pick up when already speak Gaelic. (Closest thing I've ever come across to Scots Gaelic).
Hence the difference.
But ask the people who speak the language which flag they adore, and all three will say...'Green, white and gold'.
Nach bhfuil sé sin go hÁllainn?
My point is that the Arabs aren't just making life miserable for the Jews, but for ALL the french.
I enjoyed reading this as much the third time as I did the first and second. I just never get tired of reading this guy.
So protecting our borders and following the Constitution is ruining America? I guess we've read different history books.
A unique combination of P J O'Rourke and H L Mencken, in which
the sum is greater than its parts. I also don't know another person
or subject on FR that is uniformly lionized. We have such good taste.
We've got to stop meeting like this. After next time. #8^)
Perhaps we have. Have you read the ones where, in nearly every generation, immigration has been seen as a threat to the stability of the nation? In our history, reaching back even before the founding of the Republic, there have always been alarmists who claim that "real Americans don't let non-Americans become Americans."
Back in the 1740s, for example, Ben Franklin warned us all about the influx of Germans who were coming into the nation, claiming they would ruin it all for good, upstanding, God-fearing Englishmen.
In the 1850s, Pat Buchanan's forebears, Irish fleeing the potato famine, were the new menace. Then it was the Polish, the Italians, Russian Jews, Eastern Europeans, etc.
In each instance the "menace" was soon assimilated, usually by the second generation, and then a new menace arose.
That's why I say Buchanan is "anti-American" because he like you completely ignores or denies the fact that steady immigration has always been the American way, that despite repeated warnings over the last three hundred years of the downfall of society as the result of each new "invasion" nothing of the sort ever happened, and that the more insular societies like Japan or China are the ones that tend to stagnate.
So yes, Buchanan is "anti-American" by the REAL definition of "American." You are not permitted to adjust reality to suit your prejudices.
Have you seen the INS stats on deportations of people of Middle Eastern descent and the number of NEW visas issued?
Are you aware of the illegals flowing into the USA from our southern borders? Do you not consider this a problem given our current situation?
...the above describes Pat Buchanan in every particular...
Or, President Bush :
Untrue. Next time try to get your facts straight.
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