Mark Steyn: It's 'peace' psychosis in a nut's hell

The Telegraph (U.K.) ^ | 11/18/03 | Mark Steyn

[thoughtomator]

I feel sorry for the liberal who signs up for an argument and ends up in the wrong room with Mark Steyn!

[MEG33]

What a wonderful thought!

[spodefly]

Steyn BUMP!

[lorrainer]

I think this is the best Steyn I have ever read - and that's saying something.

You have picked the exact passage I was going to, and given the same comment. Steyn does NOT get any better than this.

But then again, I've said that before.... ;o)

[FranklinsTower]

One of Steyn's very best!

He basically lays it out for all to see why being liberal these days is either a mental deficiency/illness or downright evil in intent.

It would be great if the British could somehow show in a glaringly obvious way how much they appreciate Pres. Bush. According to a few polls, +60% of them do -- but the liberal media elites would never let the facts get in the way of their opinions.

[Brian Allen]

<< Too Christian, too Godless, too isolationist, too imperialist, too seductive, too cretinous, America is George Orwell's Room 101: whatever your bugbear, you will find it therein - for the Continentals, excessive religiosity; for the Muslims, excessive decadence; for Harold Pinter, excessively bleeding rectums.

So be it. This is a psychosis so [Hesperophobically-hatred-driven and] impervious to reason that on Thursday those in the most advanced stage will pour into the streets to re-enact the toppling of Saddam's statue with Bush on the podium -- [And the other] 40 per cent of Britons who merely think the President "stupid" will cheer from their sofas. >>

Screw every last one of the ingrate bastards! And every horse every one of them rode in on!

[Thanks for the Ping, Pokes]

[DeuceTraveler]

This is a lot like something I told a girl in Stockholm, Sweden. She was talking about how Americans scare her because we are always waving flags and implying that we were like Nazis. I told her that I was tired of Europeans telling me we were too nationalist, then that we down our own culture, that we were too imperialist, but then we don't get involved in the world, that we were too religious, and that we were too decadent, etc. I finished my "America is too..." conversation with Anti-Americanism is the religion of our time.


Of course Stein articulates it all the better.

[SeeRushToldU_So]

This is good.

[FreedomPoster]

This is certainly a high among Steyn highlights for me as well. So many great quotes, I don't know where to start. He's really outdone himself with this one.

I continue to wish I were able to write 1/10th as well.

[Brian Allen]

<< This is a lot like something I told a girl in Stockholm, Sweden. She was talking about how Americans scare her because we are always waving flags and implying that we were like Nazis. I told her that I was tired of Europeans telling me we were too nationalist, then that we down our own culture, that we were too imperialist, but then we don't get involved in the world, that we were too religious, and that we were too decadent, etc. I finished my "America is too..." conversation with Anti-Americanism is the religion of our time.


Of course Stein articulates it all the better. >>

Stein makes me proud in that I am also what on of his [Cheese-eating surrender monkey] countrymen once called "a limey-bred bastard!" I'm an American who was born in New Zealand and who, like most converts, Steyn included, is more American than most Americans.

I travel insanely [More than an equivilent 650 global circumnavigations, over 180,000 nautical miles so far this year and at least two trips planned befor the end of December] but discreetly and anonymously and, because I sound like a New Zealander, get to hear the world's opinion of our nation raw and unfiltered.

And the world, sad, for its sake, to say, pathologically hates us.

Anti-American hatred is such that my anger grows by the day -- as my tolerance erodes. I am really fed to the teeth with dead and decadent hesperophobic ingrates like those Mark Steyn writes about here and your aquaintance in Sweden, not one of whom would be free without America's willing sacrifices of blood and treasure, laying their delusionally-fantasized fevered froth and foam-flecked self-loathing and every other of the world's other self-made ills in our most generous of nation's lap.

I've given up. It's down to we make the world safe for US -- or be liked.

Thank God we have an administration comprised of adults with courage enough and integrity and the moral certitude to understand that our nation's survival -- and Human Civilization's -- is not a popularity contest!

Bump/Ping

[Remole]

I agree completely. I think this part of the essay is the best example of argument by paradox since GK Chesterton. I simply stand (actually, sit) in awe of his qualities of perception and the clever bon mot.

[Tolik]

I've never seen him or heard him debating anybody verbally. Is he as goos in oral disputes as he is in writing?

[Tolik]

goos=good

[GETMAIN]

Bloody beautiful article. Loved it. Thanks for posting it.

[thoughtomator]

Actually I was making a tongue-in-cheek allusion to the Monty Python skit where the guy pays for an argument but walks into the room for 'abuse'.

[knighthawk]

Ping

[blackie]

Mark Steyn is on a roll ~ great stuff ~ Bump!

Thanks John!

[muleskinner]

Superior Steyn Ping

[Snuffington]

A new one for the Steyn classic archive bump.

[Flashman_at_the_charge]

Steyn cracks another one out of the park! ;-)