Mark Steyn: The British wrest defeat from the jaws of victory

The Sunday Telegraph (U.K.) ^ | 06/08/03 | Mark Steyn

[MEG33]

I never tell my children are not native Texans.They were born in Ca. during Navy days .We could use Texas plates on our car then....I just figure it doesn't count!

[brewer1516]

"I could donate some Barbra Streisand CDs."

I believe they are looking for WMDs, not toxic sludge.

[netmilsmom]

They buried those 200 babies with their dollies. It was all worth it.

[headsonpikes]

"...hesperophobically-pathological envy..."

LOL!

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the heads up!

[cherry_bomb88]

Thanks for the ping, Meekie! It's sad that his country doesn't see how great he is like we do...perhaps he could come here and run for office! :o)

[Grampa Dave]

One of Mark's better articles.

[MeekOneGOP]

A friend and his wife are from Florida, and they met in college there. After graduation, she got a job here in Texas and they moved here. He got one here shortly thereafter. They have a daughter who was born here. A few years ago we were all in the car having a conversation, and their daughter mentioned the fact that she was born in Texas while her parents were born in Florida. She commented she was GLAD she was born in Texas. I latched on to that quickly, and told her: "Nikki, tell them that there are only TWO types of folks in this world - Texans and those that WISH they were Texans!" LOL !!!

[Hildy]

They don't get it...Saddam Hussein and this thugs WERE the weapons of Mass Destruction. Yeesh.

[MEG33]

I knew you would understand!

[MEG33]

I wish this column could be linked to some of the NO WMD FOUND posts.I am a computer dunce.

[MeekOneGOP]

You're welcomed.

He'd get my vote in a heartbeat !!

[MeekOneGOP]

hehe! :O)

[Travis McGee]

I'm just so glad to have Steyn on the internet! Today, really scorching columns can get first distributed on places like FR, and then passed to a network of friends. More and more, the lamestream media is being left behind.

Bush and Blair are heroes, and will go down in history as such.

[Brian Allen]

That's the really hard kind to handle.

Gets folks murder-bomber riled, aiming airplanes at tall buildings -- and stuff like that.

[wardaddy]

Bump that..

[Da_Shrimp]

There isn't a Limey born who would recognise a True Conservative if one was biting him in the arse at the time.

Hmmm... I'd go as far as I'd say I would.

[Victoria Delsoul]

Insofar as this is a serious argument, let's rebut it in terms the armchair accusers can understand: Liberty. Not the liberty George W Bush has brought to Iraq, which Eurosophisticates are so sniffy about, but the Liberty on Regent Street. I once ordered a sofa from Liberty and, as is the way, I had to wait till they made it. They didn't have the sofa itself, but they had sofa capability. That's what counts: capability, not inventory. It would obviously be easier to wait and pick the evidence of WMD out of the rubble of Birmingham, but for the Americans it is capability that's the determining criterion.

It is so perfectly clear. Why is this so hard to understand.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I am trying to figure this statement out:

hesperophobically-pathological envy, hatred and rage-engined anti-Americanism

Concentrating on hesperophobically

But the dictionary threw up its hands! So I tried hespero

And I found One entry found for Hesperian.

Main Entry: Hes·pe·ri·an
Pronunciation: he-'spir-E-&n
Function: adjective
Etymology: Latin Hesperia, the west, from Greek, from feminine of hesperios of the evening, western, from hesperos evening -- more at WEST
Date: 15th century
: WESTERN, OCCIDENTAL

OK--- West phobic - pathological?

Am I close?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

It is so perfectly clear. Why is this so hard to understand.

Many don't seem to want to understand!

Even here on FR!