Posted on 02/10/2005 5:51:09 AM PST by Pokey78
Steyn ping.
pinging you to an interesting article.
Good article! (As usual...)
Thank you. This is a frightening cautionary tale and brilliantly conceived and written in true Steyn-O-Mite fashion.
All together now: "We need an exit strategy." Thank you, Dems, and your news media friends.
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FMCDH(BITS)
I don't understand the Tories. Are they simply trying to be different than Blair?
If Bill Clinton had taken strong action against Iraq in the mid-90s, I would have supported it. However, his weak responses to attacks on the WTC, the Cole, etc have simply confirmed that he didn't have a vision - he simply reacted to public opinion.
Bush is a leader with vision. Blair and Howard at least recognize this, and they may have vision themselves (but may lack the means that America has).
I think the Tories need to realize that if you have a good leader, he doesn't have to be defeated. Working with Blair will be to their benefit in the long run.
We have an exit strategy.
Kill them till they stop trying to kill us. That is what war is about.
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FDR's exit strategy for WW2 is almost upon us - we will soon, finally be leaving Japan and Europe, right on schedule, at the end of hostilities...
I refuse to believe anyone can be more of the consummate,fat, bloated bureaucrat than what Jabba the Ted is.
A most insightful Steyn article. Thanks, Pokey.
<< This crowd are all supposedly, to one degree or another, conservatives. So am I. Clearly, one of us has got the wrong end of the stick. >>
Stay the course, Mr Steyn!
For as you well know, there are of course no conservatives in once-great Britain -- and never have been.
Only stuck-in-the-eighteenth-and-nineteenth-centuries delusionally-fantasizing bovver-girly-boyish once-great-british walking dead and other craven fasciSSocialist lites, whose recent 'great achievments' include sacrificing life and limb in defense of South Atlantic rocks while simultaneously surrendering the nation's very sovereignty to Brussels' bureaucrats -- and the millions of Hong Kong's once-FRee Peoples into medieval slavery.
And who otherwise but quibble with the various other kinds of fasciSSocialists about who should carve up and dollup out the pork.
Thanks for the ping, Pokes.
Another brilliantly written article by Steyn.
I disagree entirely with this bit though,
"not only are there going to be a lot more Muslims but those Muslims are likely to be much more radical"
Most of the Muslims I know in London go to pubs, cinemas and football matches. They go out with girls from different backgrounds and they still go to Mosque, every now and then. Though their parents and Grandparents came to England with stiffened religious resolve, the new generation have been assimilated by our culture, they've moved on.
Suggesting that 'they're' going to get more radical, reminds me of the attitude to blacks in south London in the 1980's.
It’s no coincidence that the region of the world that causes the most trouble for the rest is the one the Western European imperialists stayed in just long enough to screw up but not long enough to do any good in.
We can argue over whether America was imperialist towards say Latin America or maybe the Phillipines (I would strongly disagree with that, but I recognize an argument could be made) but the Arab world was all Europe. At least until Americans discovered oil there after the Euros screwed it up.
Steyn is truly a gifted writer. Thanks Poke.
Is there no "post a pic" rule for Steyn??
Because I gotta tell ya..
I got it bad..
You, know...
that cardiac heartbroke thing..
<< I don't understand the Tories. Are they simply trying to be different than Blair? >>
It's way worse than that.
Remember it is the bloody Tories who created most of the world's problems and that -- despite that the execrable Blair lacks the courage to do anything about his awful [Domestic] inheritance -- and is in any case organically/ideologically inclined to continue the surrender of once-great-Britain's sovereignty and to thus further Judeo-Christian/Western Civilization's demise -- Blair but took over from where the craven 'Conservatives' left off.
<< .... one reason the [World] is in the mess it’s in is that .... fag-end British imperialism was too fainthearted to inculcate British ‘nation-building’ values .... but still arrogant enough to complicate .... politics, impose weak outside emirs as their kings, elevate minority groups into the ruling class — and then scram. It’s no coincidence that the region of the world that causes the most trouble for the rest is the one the Western imperialists stayed in just long enough to screw up but not long enough to do any good in. >>
First the world -- and now the home islands!
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