Mark Steyn: Sometimes it is worth going to war

The Telegraph (U.K.) ^ | 10/18/05 | Mark Steyn

[headsonpikes]

He is our generation's Mencken.

Here's a sampler of old H.L.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/H._L._Mencken

[saganite]

When is the freakin' purple dinosaur gonna bite the dust? UNICEF started something. Now, they gotta finish it!

[EricT.]

However, no one touches Sponge Bob Square Pants!

Yes, but I think Patrick Starfish is a pinko Democrat! Well, he's dumb enough to be one anyway.

[SnuffaBolshevik]

Do what you will with the smurfs, teletubbies, and others. However, no one touches Sponge Bob Square Pants!

Thomas the Tank Engine needs to be strafed by P-51's!

[r9etb]

Wow. A masterpiece, even for Steyn. How does he keep cranking out gems like this?

[thoughtomator]

The screen capture has the great virtue of showing Steyn in action sticking it to the Left, though... you can just imagine the biting sarcasm in whatever remark he's in the middle of making.

By the way, I've had the bombed-out Smurf village as my desktop background since I first saw it... not the way UNICEF intended, I'm guessing. I find it freakin' hilarous!

[wickedpinto]

The Tubbie's are brittish, leave that to tony.

[irv]

It's the first Smurf snurf movie.

Bwahahhahahahahahahah!

[parisa]

Absolutely brilliant -

[alwaysconservative]

Wonderful article, and wonderful ping; thanks so much!

[NeoCaveman]

Even if we were part of Saddam's own approved class living in the Smurfi Triangle, it's still a life permanently fixed between terror and resignation, in which all a parent's hopes for his children are subordinate to the whims of a psycho state.

The Smurfi triangle, rotflmao!

[AnAmericanMother]

It's the first Smurf snurf movie.

I think UNICEF has belatedly realized that it has stepped in it.

This is so ludicrous . . . especially if you've ever seen the pic of the baby in the Shanghai train station from the Japanese invasion . . .

[Victoria Delsoul]

Whatever the Americans got wrong, they got one big thing right - that, if you persevered, Iraq had the potential to function as a free society in a part of the world where no such thing has ever existed.

That was a long shot, and much sneered at, not least by British "conservatives". But Washington judged correctly: given the radicalisation of the Arab world, and the Arabification of the Islamic world, and the Islamification of much of the rest of the world, in the end you have to fix the problem at source.

Bumpity bump.

[RobbyS]

Ditto. Speaking of, has Rush or Hannity ever had this guy on?

[GOPJ]

Yep, Steyn speaks for all of us...Thanks for the ping.

[Rembrandt]

The country that will be really, really concerned now is Iran. Struggling Republic to the North, Republic to the West and new Republic to the South. To the East, nada. I suspect a revolution in Iran is cooking and will happen within two years.

I very much want to be added to the Steyn ping list.

[DCPatriot]

Thanks for the Steyn ping, Pokey!

I hope he's an under-cover, paid consultant to this Administration.

[goldstategop]

True to form, the MSM is highlighting vote fraud in Iraq in order to discredit the birth of Iraq's democracy. Its amazing liberals always manage to find bad news where there's none. Mark Steyn would say they can't stand the sight of a transformed Middle East, with the problems fixed at the source by an infusion of freedom and capitalism. Rush Limbaugh would say the Left is invested in failure. All in all, its a good day UN smurfs or no UN smurfs which shows the utter irrelevance of the multilateral approach. The real target of Leftist scorn is America. It does do some things right and that is the source of their rage and hate not the conditions in Iraq.

(Denny Crane: "I like nature. Don't talk to me about the environment".)

[phillyfanatic]

Hugh Hewitt and Dennis Prager have had him on frequently. Rush, don't think so. Sean, perhaps once or twice , radio but not TV.

[Brian Allen]

Thank you, Mr Steyn.

And thanks for the ping, Pokes!