A bombing pause -- for 12 months? (by Mark Steyn)

National Post Online ^ | November 22, 2002 | Mark Steyn

[swarthyguy]

ANd the question asked by others, is how is the US truly serious about the socalled waronsometerror if it won't confront it's friends, the saudis and the pakistanis?

[Rummyfan]

Thanks for the ping Pokey....

Stop the bombing for Ramadam-a-ding-dong? This religious, holy month didn't stop a homicide bomber from killing eleven Israelis yesterday.....

Like Mr Steyn I am impatient. We have had over a year to line things up on Iraq - let's roll!

[hattend]

BTTT!

If not bomb now, when?

If not bomb Saddam, who?

Who cares if the Islamafascists will be upset, they hate us anyway...even when we feed and clothe them.

[Notforprophet]

I guess I'm not following you. Ramadan has been around the end of the year (Nov. - Dec.) for as long as I can remember. I don't recall it ever falling in June.

And Mark Steyn always gets a bump from me.

[secretagent]

ANd the question asked by others, is how is the US truly serious about the socalled waronsometerror if it won't confront it's friends, the saudis and the pakistanis?

The best I can hope for - Bush says "nice doggy", while reaching for a stick. I wouldn't bet on it, though.

[deport]

I guess I'm not following you. Ramadan has been around the end of the year (Nov. - Dec.) for as long as I can remember. I don't recall it ever falling in June.

Ramandan is the 9th month of the Muslim calendar.... The calendar is based upon a lunar month and 12 lunar months make a year (354 days). Thus the Muslim calendar is 11 days shorter than the calendar (Julian) we observe. So in 34 years it will cycle through all the seasons back to it's original starting point.

[A.J.Armitage]

So now they're deliberately making the United States more Islamic. Lovely.

It's all a part of Bush's superior strategery, no doubt.

[Notforprophet]

deport - thanks for the clarification.

I still don't see how it bares on the article. Why shouldn't Steyn get a bump just because Ramadan floats around the Julian calendar?

[knighthawk]

Ping

[foreshadowed at waco]

And, given that several Hezbollah execs seem to be running around Gaza with Canadian passports, in terms of how many Canucks are murdered and how many are murderers, it's probably a wash.

Steyn is like a skilled surgeoan--there is always a clean, direct cut that can be found in the midst of all his beautiful prose.

[WarrenC]

I very much admire what President Bush has accomplished in the area of strengthening his position both domestically and internationally. Still, this is all taking a very long time. I worry that our time to defeat the terrorists is not unlimited. During the civil war, General McClellan was constantly telling President Lincoln that he needed more time to prepare. Lincoln finally reminded the general that the time he is taking to prepare is very likely being just as well used by the enemy.

[NYC GOP Chick]

These people bombs, gas, and otherwise kill their own and Jews during Ramadan.

These little bastards also brutally attacked Israel on the highest of the Holy Days -- Yom Kippur -- hence, the Yom Kippur War.

[lainde]

Steyn bump!

[xm177e2]

Hows about HAMAS calls a bombing pause during Ramadan, it being such a holy, important month and all.

[KeyWest]

Styne does want it now, a characteristic of our current society. It took 70 years to bring down Communism. We will be at this war for a long time too. First there is containment, and that started with the Taliban and will continue with Iraq (and the Phil, Russia, Israel...) Iran will shift soon.

When you consider how far we have come since GB took over, it is a bit breathtaking. He has rallied the nation in spite of overwhelming negative press and a dem controlled Senate. He has shifted the political landscape profoundly when it is normally impossible to do so.

And if you really want to see how far we have come, picture Gore as President.

[MeekOneGOP]

Steyn bump !!

[The Iguana]

Yes, but every day we wait is a day closer Saddam gets to making the Bomb.

Sometimes impatience is a virtue.

[dennisw]

Indeed, the evidence from Afghanistan, Chechnya, Bali and North London suggests that it's now the ideology of choice for the world's troublemakers, as Communism once was.

[veronica]

BTTT.

[Valin]

There has been the traditional annual call for a "bombing pause" during Ramadan


Ok, nothing but missiles, rockets, artillery.
But no bombs!