Mark Steyn: We’re Winning This War

The Spectator ^ | September 13, 2003 | Mark Steyn

[netmilsmom]

You'll find another!
But I say, crap!! I missed it too.

[MEG33]

Steyn scores again

[headsonpikes]

"All turban, no jihad"

Another winner!

[xzins]

This is an awesome article!

Thanks.

Thanks Steyn.

[okie01]

"Is Europe really that out of touch?"

No. Only the Euroweenie left, as represented by The Guardian and Observer. Along with their sycophantic contemporaries in France, Germany and Belgium, of course.

The rest of Europe is reasonably sane. See Poland, Italy, Spain, Bulgaria, Czechia, the Baltics et al.

[July 4th]

Another winner from Steyn!

[livius]

A great article indeed! This struck me:

the lack of credit that the Bush administration gets for [the absence of attacks]

There was an article by Daniel Henninger in the Wall Street Journal last week in which he pointed out that after the first flush of unity after 9/11, the Dems adopted an "attack Bush" strategy that has basically rejected all of our victories and successes at home or abroad and has polarized Congress. They're probably proud of themselves for this little stunt.

[Joan912]

Yes, they're proud now, but we'll all be laughing when Bush is reelected in 2004.

(Mark Steyn is a god!)

[Tennessean4Bush]

This is an awesome article!

[Britton J Wingfield]

great article.

[Criminal Number 18F]

Yep. They keep coming "on," and we've got the "slaught" waiting.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[Criminal Number 18F]

Let her take you; Afghans can put on quite a feed, and their hospitality is legendary. It was a beautiful place before the communists and the war, and they're not all bad by any means.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[Criminal Number 18F]

The Pashtuns often wear a turban, which varies depending on the particular tribe. The Afridi, for instance, wear a green turban. The Taliban almost standardised on a black one, and Osama, even though he is not Afghan, affected a Pashtun turban.

Other tribes also wear turbans... it is associated with adulthood, with a young Tajik boy wearing a skullcap or fez until he can buy his first turban, which is a rite of passage for him. Several of the orphans that cleaned up around our camp were able to buy their first turbans with the money we paid them, and they were very excited to show them off.

The Afghan turban is a simple wrap-round-the-head deal, and is not as stylish as a Sikh turban (the Sikh conceals his unshorn hair therein).

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[Susannah]

"If 9/11 liberated the Bush administration to put into action its scheme to take over the world, then it also liberated the Western elites to embrace finally and wholeheartedly anti-Americanism as the New Unifying Theory of Everything. It didn’t have to be like that: the intellectual class could have sided with the women of Afghanistan or the political prisoners of Iraq. But the advantage of sour oppositionism is that whatever happens there’s always something to sneer at."

"intellectual class" ?

"The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive."
-- Thomas Sowell

[FlyVet]

Condi Rice apparently warned all kinds of people not to fly on 11 September. If that’s true, it seems odd that Don Rumsfeld, one of the architects of the conspiracy, didn’t warn himself not to go to the Pentagon that morning. You’d think, being in on the plot, he’d warn himself not to be sitting at his desk as the plane sliced through the building.........Rumsfeld knew the plane would hit the other side of the Pentagon well away from his office, so, if he coolly went to work as usual, he’d throw even expert conspiracy-sniffers like Meacher off the scent.

I knew that Rummy guy was a sly dog.

[metesky]

Good Sowell quote.

[Core_Conservative]

In the Guardian on Saturday, he demanded to know whether US air-security operations had ‘been deliberately stood down on 11 September’ in order to facilitate the attack. Who would do such a thing? Why, Rummy, Cheney, Wolfie and the other sinister graduates of the Project for a New American Century.

could it be that the so-called "peace dividend" during the latter part of the first Bush administration, and the entire klintoon administration - desolved the entire Nothern Tier Alert Forces, after all, (sarcasm) The Soviets are no longer a threat coming accross the North Pole - and the Canadians will catch everything else (/sarcasm) Thank God that someone decide to bring back the Nothern Alert Sector - It's a shame it had to be under 9/11.

[Ichneumon]

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The fair use clause does *not* say that one can reproduce entire works just because your intention is to discuss it and not profit from it.

[BOBTHENAILER]

Yep. They keep coming "on," and we've got the "slaught" waiting.

I love it. Great description of "onslaught".