[pikachu]

If Bush is a cowboy, the Europeedons are the cows. Get the banding irons hot, Dubya, and make your mark!

[danneskjold]

IMHO, when Hitchens is right, there's no one better...

[linn37]

according to Laura ,George is a windsheild cowboy. Meaning he only rides around in that gas guzzling Ford.

[Mike Darancette]

Most ranchers allowed a little inventory slippage when it came to hungry Indians, in order to keep the Peace. There was really little open conflict between working cowboys and Indians.

[wretchard]

This Hitchens piece is doing the rounds on the blog sites. It doesn't tell us anything new, simply an old truism in a new way. If the world survives the next few months, historians of the far future will remember the Hitchens article as a benchmark of the American mood before the war. And it is a good mood: slightly irrational, slightly defiant and entirely determined.

We have come to the final edge of the cliff. In the coming months, there is a real chance that thousands, perhaps even millions of Americans, Australians and Brits will die. Saddam Hussein probably has enough pathogens to cause significant damage in revenge before he dies. But we are going nonetheless.

Hitchens forgot one thing about the cowboy: that he lived a simple life beneath the stars, attuned to the rhythms of life and accepting of the possibility, nay, the inevitability, of death. In these days before the balloon goes up, let me say for the record, that there are worse things in life than to live or die as a man, an American or a cowboy.

[billorites]

giddyup.

[KC Burke]

But it turns out that refined Parisians are keener on such "unilateral" gestures—putting a bomb onboard the Rainbow Warrior, invading Rwanda on the side of the killers, dispatching French troops to the Ivory Coast without a by-your-leave, building a reactor for Saddam Hussein, and all the rest of it.

Rainbow Warrior. Ah, yes! A good reference to another one of the great French Battle victories.

For those that don't recall, that was the Greenpeace ship that the French Government thought was such a threat that they had to blow it up in Aukland Harbour on the other side of the world.

A Green Peace photographer was unGaulic enough to die and the French ended up having international damages of over $8,000,000.00 found against them.

Dont' get me wrong, Green Peace isn't my favorite child compared to a whole nation of French men and women, some of whom, I'm sure, have their head on straight, but Hitchens know how to hit the ball out of the park.

[Timocrat]

The third was when he was asked about the murder of an Arab-American in Texas after 11 Sept. and remarked rather ominously that the perpetrator had "picked the wrong state" in which to commit this outrage. One could almost see the noose snaking over the limb of the tree.

His imagery here is a bit out of date. We no longer hang 'em high but we do give 'em the "ultimate high".

[swarthyguy]

Beautiful. Hitchens and Steyn Rule!