Mark Steyn: The Arabs' Berlin Wall has crumbled

The Telegraph (U.K.) ^ | 03/01/05 | Mark Steyn

[knighthawk]

Ping

[stop_fascism]

instead, they have to dress like a voting booth - a big black impenetrable curtain with a little slot to drop your ballot through

How does he do it week after week? Brilliant.

[gopwinsin04]

They don't call him 'the great one' for nothing!

[JarheadFromFlorida]

George Bush is bringing democracy to a neighbor near you.

[kalee]

Wouldn't you like to ask them what caused this change?

Then as they stumble for a reply you can shout... W!!!!!!

[Huck]

On 30 April 1789, George Washington, standing on the balcony
of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York, took his oath of office
as the first President of the United States.
"As the first of every thing, in our situation will serve to establish a precedent"
he wrote James Madison,
"it is devoutly wished on my part, that these precedents may be
fixed on true principles."

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I think the major problem is ...they have an Agenda....see this:

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Unholy Alliance
by David Horowitz
Regnery Publishing, Inc.; ISBN: 089526076X
Hardcover - 256 pages (September 2004)

In this tour de force on the most important issue of our time, David Horowitz, confronts the paradox of how so many Americans, including the leadership of the Democratic Party, could turn against the War on Terror. He finds an answer in a political Left that shares a view of America as the “Great Satan” with America’s radical Islamic enemies. This Left, which once made common cause with Communists, has now joined forces with radical Islam in attacking America’s defenses at home and its policies abroad. From their positions of influence in the university and media culture, leftists have defined America as the “root cause” of the attacks against it. In a remarkable exploration of the “Mind of the Left,” Horowitz traces the evolution of American radicalism from its Communist past to its “anti-war” present. He then shows how this Left was able to turn the Democratic Party presidential campaign around and reshape its views on the War on Terror.

Horowitz’s Unholy Alliance, writes John Haynes, the noted historian of American Communism, “is an insightful, brilliant examination of the mental world of the radical left. Horowitz shows how today’s radicals, unwilling to reflect on the internal flaws that destroyed Marxism-Leninism from within, have embraced an all-consuming nihilism in its place. This has led them to a hatred of American institutions and a solidarity with Islamic terrorists that makes the radical left more properly regarded as dangerous than loony.”

Unholy Alliance is an eye-opening book that should unsettle conventional assumptions and reveals why intellectuals and political leaders who applaud Michael Moore are no laughing matter. As Harvey Klehr, author of Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America, writes, “The world Communist movement may be moribund, but its habits of mind and ideological fantasies have not disappeared. This is a fascinating and depressing account.”

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[Hudobna]

Ciao Bennett46
Another Steyn ping.

No holds barred; no mercy given.

Thanks for the ping. I love this Mark Steyn! And one of the things that I love the most is his street-wise attitude, which Conservatives in my country have surrendered to the left, thinking unthinkingly that being "right" and being super-cool at the same time is a natural contradiction. I looked him up on the net and devoured a great many articles... even movie reviews. Wonderful.

Well along with working (yech!) I spent much of the morning on an Italian forum, trying to arm myself with Steynian "coolness," calling our socialists and communists dead-stiff reactionaries, really rubbing it in!

This angle, of making sense, determination, freedom, change and even morality (!!!) FASHIONABLE again is extremely important. Culture needs to be rescued from the forces of nihilism.

Anyway... the real turning point in the Middle East hinges on Iran. They started Islamo-Fascism, and my personal guess is that once it crumbles there, it will lose the rest of its appeal.

Last year in Rome I attended an Iranian Freedom rally in Piazza Farnese. I'll never forget my surprise and amusement when a bigshot leftwing politician tried to make a speech, certain that he had all the right "student" type ideas necessary to win over the audience.

As soon as he stepped to the dais, he was almost attacked by an angry mob because the man's left wing Govt. had made 1001 deals with the Ayatollahs, with the oppressors. And unlike the fury of leftwing mobs, the kids in Piazza Farnese were genuinely outraged.

The press regales us daily with images of hatred towards America, especially from the Middle East, but I suspect that they are miles away from the true sentiment of most of the people, who, like everywhere else in the world, just want to work, see progress, enjoy a more relaxed society, and get on with the already difficult art of living without being bombarded 24 hours around the clock with the Utopian "perfection" of their propaganda machines.

God Bless America for making internet and inventing blogs! For allowing the people themselves to make politics street-level real! And three cheers in honor of Mark Steyn for making it street-level cool!

[Naomi4]

I am glad you "borrowed" his picture. Now you can put it in on all the Steyn articles you post.

[LibertarianLiz]

What a column --- I love Steyn, but what else is new. Loved this line:

Hosni Mubarak has no desire to take part in campaign debates with Hosno Name-Recognition.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

he may not have a choice:

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[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

See the Toon above.

[kenavi]

Um, no, he did not make mankind "fundamentally good", that was tacked onto Christianity by social gospel uplifters in the wake of Rousseau.

You're right. I'll hearken to an older belief, that He made us morally neutral at birth, with the ability to distinguish and choose. Or as Steinbeck wrote in "East of Eden": "Timshel".

Regards.

[DuncanWaring]

If Reagan said that FDR influenced him, then I believe him.

Could be a polite way of saying "FDR was a good example of what NOT to do."

[NonValueAdded]

I'll see your Lincoln and raise you a Teddy Roosevelt.

[cinnathepoet]

But, but, but there were no WMDS!!!!

[Mind-numbed Robot]

But, but, but there were no WMDS!!!!

Depends on the meaning of "were".