Mark Steyn: A War Without Polkas

National Review Online ^ | May 23, 2005, issue of NR | Mark Steyn

[Constitution Day]

Ping...

[job]

Jimmy Stuhr Ping

[Ashamed Canadian]

We ain't seen nothing yet. Europe will be a cauldron of fire.

[Nathan Zachary]

The war "ended" in 1945, but we were in Japan and Germany for many years after, and there was sporatic shooting too.

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

If the “sleeping giant” is hard to wake up, his European pals aren’t sleeping so much as in irreversible comas.

Osama will be along shortly to pull their feeding tubes.

[Pokey78]

Steyn ping!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Osama will be along shortly to pull their feeding tubes.

looks that way!

[proud American in Canada]

Thank you for the ping. This is a fantastic article. Steyn gets it.

The National Post just isn't the same without him.

[tet68]

If the “sleeping giant” is hard to wake up, his European pals aren’t sleeping so much as in irreversible comas.

PVLS Persistant Vegetative Liberal State.

Time to pull the plug on the lot of them.

[Gritty]

Steyn BUMP!

[dead]

the 9/11 attacks exposed many useful tidbits about the decadence of the West — the worthlessness of the post-modern NATO “alliance” and the active hostility of many of its key members to the United States, the immense deference accorded not just to Islam but to the most radical Islamic groups, especially when it comes to immigration and other aspects of national security.

It also more clearly exposed the lightly camouflaged hatred of their own country by the American left.

It is no joke that they are seriously rooting for Islamic fundamentalists to triumph gloriously over freedom and democracy won under an American flag.

They won’t get their wish.

[Conservative4Ever]

Steyn gets it! Keep your head down and your powder dry.

[July 4th]

Another great piece here. An excellent job of distilling a huge issue.

[TomasUSMC]

The War on Terror has involved no major mobilization of the population at large.

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Ex Act Leeeee!

We should and could have finished these bunch of rpg carrying punks in 4 months with mobilization, instead its turning into years and years. Ridiculous.

[Dog Gone]

Thanks for posting the whole thing.

Unfortunately, it appears that Steyn is right about Europe, or at least Old Europe.

There's a chance that new Europe, the eastern block countries along with the UK might ultimately prevail in their thinking. It appears that it's terminal for France, Germany, and the Benelux countries.

Demographics will get them long before they regain their sanity.

[FreedomPoster]

The Netherlands may have woken up, same with Denmark.

[Dog Gone]

I don't think Denmark ever went to sleep with the rest of them. They are a minor influence, so I didn't mention them.

I thought the Netherlands woke up a couple of years ago when the assassination of Pim Fortuyn occurred. But with a brief fling with a conservative government in reaction to that killing, they've resumed their leftist ways.

[Chu Gary]

Mecca, nuclear bomb, problem solved.

[irv]

bombs in Spain, murders in the Netherlands, “honor killings” in Germany prompt only shrugs or preemptive capitulation from the political class.

Someone who truly gets Democrat (or in the case of Europe, Social Democrat) policies!