Jack Straw wouldn't be fit to clean up after Winston Churchill's dog.
Bump!
You just gotta love the Australians. We're VERY lucky to have them as allies.
...Cold War chit-chat in its 1970s détente phase—when Willy Brandt and Pierre Trudeau and Jimmy Carter pretended the enemy was not what it was...
Come on Mark, Willy [Brandt] wasn't too bad. Sure he was quite a wuss, but he was no anti-American and was quite sane when compared with the even goofier New Zealand Left of his contemporaries:
Denis Dutton on New Zealand "idealism"/appeasement
"Willy Brandt, the social democratic Chancellor of West Germany, was once upbraided by idealistic members of the New Zealand Labour caucus over Nato. As Mike Moore tells the story, Brandt explained his position to the New Zealanders, and added, "Idealism increases in direct proportion to your distance from the problem.""
I think when compared with the Europeans in power today, Brandt would be more like Tony Blair.
...Cold War chit-chat in its 1970s détente phase—when Willy Brandt and Pierre Trudeau and Jimmy Carter pretended the enemy was not what it was...
Come on Mark, Willy [Brandt] wasn't too bad. Sure he was quite a wuss, but he was no anti-American and was quite sane when compared with the even goofier New Zealand Left of his contemporaries:
Denis Dutton on New Zealand "idealism"/appeasement
"Willy Brandt, the social democratic Chancellor of West Germany, was once upbraided by idealistic members of the New Zealand Labour caucus over Nato. As Mike Moore tells the story, Brandt explained his position to the New Zealanders, and added, "Idealism increases in direct proportion to your distance from the problem.""
I think when compared with the Europeans in power today, Brandt would be more like Tony Blair.
Has Steyn been reading FR???
Steyn PING
Perhaps Mr. Steyn should quit editorializing and take the job of "White House Press Secretary" since Mark Levin apparently has declined the dubious honor. May God bless Scott McClellan with a job more appropriate to his professional strengths or an enjoyable retirement. He just can't delivering his "pack of Lies" to the American people while pounding the heads of the adversarial press back in their place.
1) He says that the anti war crowd drew a small response.
He then goes on to talk about the Muslims who were offended by the cartoons.
He then went on to talk about the Muslim men who marched through London with the placards stating behead those who offend Islam.
Well the fact it that march attracted 10 to 15 at most, those with the placards have been arrested and charged, they were condemned in the papers by other Muslims and most Muslims in Britain registered there disapproval using the same peaceful means most of us do, mainly letter writing and phone in chat lines.
Lets recognize danger but lets not paint everything as dangerous when its not.
Great, as usual.
Actually, I thought Bush's SOTU speech came close to acknowledging the enemy (he said "radical" Islam, though, when it should simply be "Islam"), but there hasn't been very much follow through. The State Dept's response to things as varied as the dread cartoons to the arrest of Abdul Rahman, the Christian convert in Afghanistan, has been beyond muted. It has been conciliatory and timid and no doubt gives hope to jihadis worldwide that we are finally coming to our senses and seeing that they were right all along. The green flag over the White House, and all that.
And I think he's right about a large number of Americans being disgusted with certain aspects of the war - the no-go policy for mosques (weapons depots), the toleration of fanatics like Sadr, the acceptance of sharia in the new constitutions of countries that we control, etc. The purpose of this war was not to make the world safe for Islam, but sometimes it sure seems it.
Well, I realize I'm exaggerating, but I do think Steyn identified a feeling of unease that a lot of Americans are experiencing right now.
Well, okay, half the anti-war crowd aren’t meant to be in the country either, if they’d kept their promise to move to Canada after the last election.
ROFLMAO.