Mark Steyn: Why I nearly resigned

The Spectator (U.K.) ^ | 04/26/03 | Mark Steyn

[Gritty]

Steyn takes on the UN.

It's not a fair fight!

[MeekOneGOP]

bttt for later STEYN read ! . . .

[spodefly]

Thanks for the ping.

Steyn is the best. Period.

[SkyPilot]

The man is a treasure.

[Dark Wing]

FYI

[M. Thatcher]

I wish that Steyn could shorten his columns just a bit.

HERESY!!!!!

I savor every Steynian statement.

[Howlin]

LOL. Including the words I have to look up!

[NewYorker]

I wish that Steyn could shorten his columns just a bit.

Heresy!

[Brian Allen]

<< ..... the heart sinks at finding a paragraph like that in what purports to be a conservative magazine. >>

The heart should not so sink, though, for all they have used, misused, abused, politicised and even Capitalized the word "Conservative" in once great Britain, there never has been, is not now and never will be a Consevative -- in the American sense of what that means -- in that once-fair land.

The British mind set is such that even those who call themselves Capital "C" Conservatives differ from the rest of Britain's sorry socialist shower only in the ways in which they offer to cut up and squander the confiscated wealth of Britain's most creative, innovative, productive and industrious SUBJECTS.

The Brits, that is -- poor fools they! -- who are not already called AMERICANS!

[NewYorker]

Hmmm. What's that old saw about Great Minds?! LOL

[Sloth]

Excellent column.

[XJarhead]

Nobody consistently gets it right as often as Steyn. "Or as I like to call it, the Belgian Congo." Even his insults make valid points.

[Hostage]

It quickly emerged that no other British publication would have me, and the only alternative employment was casual construction work.

I can see several American news outlets that would jump at the chance to acquire Mark Steyn.

[Billthedrill]

Steyn bump. It is notable that those countries most interested in transferring control of Iraq to the UN are the very ones most interested in plundering the place, and who have active track records of doing precisely that. But not to accede to their demands would place the U.S. in dire peril of international public opprobrium. They might say nasty things about us and hate us.

Which represents a change from the present situation...precisely how?

[fporretto]

Once again, Steyn pierces the jugular.

It's noteworthy that, whereas most American liberals ask to be judged on their intentions and excused for their failures, Postmodern Transnationalists, the sole remaining human subspecies that considers the UN a really neat idea:

1. demand to be judged on their allegiance to a gaggle of despots, without reference to what those despots actually do to their subjects;
2. refuse to consider previous successes and failures as relevant to a policy decision, and consider it rude to raise the subject;
3. condemn anyone who dares to assert that there might be some source of moral authority more reliable and less transient than the opinion of the "world community," in whose name they claim the monopoly privilege to speak.

UN Delenda Est.

Freedom, Wealth, and Peace,
Francis W. Porretto
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[gcruse]

Mark Steyn goes after his own editors. Wow.
Why isn't he on Fox News?

[gcruse]

Twain's equal? I see Mark as being the best of HL Mencken and PJ O'Rourke. To compare him to Twain would be difficult unless it were to say that Steyn is the Twain of our century.

[conservativemusician]

Steyn is awesome..............as usual.

[Shermy]

The Spectator is not motivated by anti-American animus, of course, and, unlike certain anti-war contributors to these pages, it was not on Saddam’s payroll.

Who's he talking about???

[foreshadowed at waco]

While the lefties warned that Ariel Sharon would use the cover of the Iraq war to slaughter the Palestinians, the Congolese are being slaughtered, and you don’t need any cover. Because nobody cares. Because no Americans or ‘Zionists’ are involved.

The nobodies who don't care are the media...it is their job to inform us...I'd love to see CNN do some investigative reporting on the Belgian Congo and the French action in Sierra Leone...but they never seem to turn a critical eye on anyone but the USA and Israel.