MARK STEYN: Flying the flag

The Daily Telegraph ^ | September 7, 2002 | Mark Steyn

[aBootes]

Good post. Thanks.

[ppaul]

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[Damocles]

I'm not sure what I'm enjoying more, Steyn and his usual laser focused commentary, or your effortless swatting of the insufferable paulklenk.

Bravo for keepin' your head about ya.

[exit82]

MadIvan, I enjoyed this article. Thanks for posting it.

Mark's comment about this being a "clash within civilizations" was a diamond in the rough. Very perceptive.

Also, thanks for being a voice of reason in GB. Always enjoy your posts.

Freepgards,

[Brian Allen]

<< .... the 55 per cent of Europeans who, according to a poll last week, think falling secretaries and atomised infants are something to do with "The United States of America's foreign policy".

Mohammed Atta and his cohorts were wealthy, privileged and psychotic, yet feeble British churchmen line up to say the people who did this did it because they're impoverished, downtrodden yet rational.

Granted that the Jack Straw Fetid Swamp of Moral Equivalence is often mistaken for the moral high ground -- but it's rarely been so crowded. >>

Great Steyn work, Ives.

And good to have you -- and those of your compatriots who feel like you -- on board.

Now what about that other fifty nine million six hundred and forty seven thousand United Kingdomers, including that very large majority of them that crowd Jack Straw's Fetid Swamp of Moral Equivalence and that line up to say that the islamanzi barbarians who perpetrated this Evil did it because they're impoverished and downtrodden?

And that it was all justified by "The United States of America's foreign policy?"

What about them?

Eh?

I thank God for the huge majority of Australasians and for the Israelis who see this attack by the world's most Evil upon the world's most Good and most Generous -- and who ALL support Our Beloved FRaternal Republic at this time.

I thank God for them.

Best FReegards -- Brian

[Brian Allen]

A #45/Steyn Happy New Year Ping to Y'All!

[FreedomPoster]

I'll take MadIvan for $20 in the 3rd.

[MeekOneGOP]

MadIvan, I appreciate you putting this article up! If it's Steyn I WANT to see it !
Thanks !

[Clara Lou]

This is a great piece. Thanks for posting it-- under "breeaking news" or otherwise. (Steyn is important enough to me to be in breaking news. Talk about a tempest in a teapot!)

[MeekOneGOP]

ROFL !

[MeekOneGOP]

MARK STEYN: Flying the flag

Excerpt:

I've heard it a thousand times since and I still don't get it. By "distancing yourself" from the victims of September 11 you move yourself closer to the perpetrators, closer to barbarism. It may be "reasonable and moderate", but it's also profoundly self-corroding.

This isn't a "clash of civilisations" so much as a clash within civilisations - in the West, between those who believe in the values of liberal democracy and those too numbed by multiculturalist bromides to recognise even the most direct assault on them; and in the Islamic world, between what's left of the moderate Muslim temperament and the Saudi-radicalised death-cult Islamists.

I don't want to be "moderate and reasonable" in the face of Mohammed Atta. A world that "distances" itself from the US to get closer to him is a world that's more misogynist, bigoted, corrupt and superstitious. On this anniversary, I'll have a new flag on my truck and Neil Young's great September 11 anthem in the CD player:

No one has the answers,
But one thing is true,
You got to turn on evil,
When it's comin' after you.

You got to face it down,
And when it tries to hide,
You got to go in after it,
And never be denied.

Amen.

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Excellent Steyn article ! Thanks for the post and ping, folks!

Please let me know if you want ON or OFF my General Interest ping list!. . .don't be shy.

[M Kehoe]

Bttt.

5.56mm

[Notforprophet]

Great Steyn article! Thanks for posting it.

And a 'God Bless our British friends' bump.

[Leisler]

ave you been to his profile page? Talk about coloring within the lines. The thing just screams anal-retentive. Still though, when one spends all that money on quarter page personal in the Anytown Advocate, and not a phone call....

[SkyPilot]

Ivan,

Mark Steyn is a treasure.

God Save the West.

[thucydides]

Great Post! I suppose in fairness we should try to remind ourselves that there are probably many Canadians who are just as disgusted with their media as we are with ours. Imagine what anyone overseas must think who reads the NY Times and assumes that it reflects American thinking.

[jwfiv]

Another bull's eye for Steyn, the guy informs, amazes and inpires. All by is lonesome, he can clear the air.

Thanks for posting it, Ivan.

I read from "Latest Articles", and pay no attention to categories, unless I go to one specifically to browse just because I'm in the mood for a certain "dish". Too bad paulklenk got his shorts in a bind over you stepping over a line...he's like a grade school kid.

Paulklenk...what's all this brouhaha...hahahaha. Are you , perhaps, Rocky Rococo in disguise. Good grief, neighbor, lighten up a bit and try a little courtesy. I was near tears at the end of the article, reading Neil's lyrics, and your snotty attitude ruined the moment...maybe I should tell the moderator. Nah.

[Alamo-Girl]

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[Wphile]

Another great Mark Steyn read. Pass it along.

[Tribune7]

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