Mark Steyn: It's 'peace' psychosis in a nut's hell

The Telegraph (U.K.) ^ | 11/18/03 | Mark Steyn

[PogySailor]

Well, Saddam's gone, on the run with no Grecian 2000 and all out of Quality Street. But it's a measure of the intensity of this psychosis that the "Stop The War" crowd may well manage to turn out more people this week than they did during the war. The war stopped six months ago, some 80 per cent of Iraq is peaceful and well governed, and the overwhelming majority of Iraqis I spoke to when I was there want the Americans to stay, rather than cut and run like the UN, Oxfam and co. But screw the Iraqi people; the "peace" crowd know better than the ignorant natives what's good for them.

Don't hold back Mark. Let us know how you really feel!

[Bullish]

This is a psychosis so impervious to reason that on Thursday those in the most advanced stage will pour into the streets to re-enact the toppling of Saddam's statue with Bush on the podium.

The real irony here is that these cretins think they are the smart ones.

[pierrem15]

best Steyn

I think you're right-- it's not just funny, but funny because it hits so many left-bent nails right on the head.

This piece could still be studied by devotees of political satire a 100 years from now, an instant classic.

Pinter's dripping rectums... ROFLMAO!!!

[irv]

The real irony here is that these cretins think they are the smart ones.

The cretins always do.

[dennisw]

Best line--->

There's "no connection" between Saddam and al-Qa'eda, because radical Islamists would never make common cause with secular Ba'athists. Or so we're told by pro-gay, pro-feminist Eurolefties who thus make common cause with honour-killing, sodomite-beheading Islamists, apparently crediting Saddam with a greater degree of intellectual coherence than they credit themselves.

[Qwinn]

I agree. That line is absolutely priceless. If I could fit it all in my tagline, that would be it.

Qwinn

[Colonel_Flagg]

Steyn is the best. And it ain't even close.

[Sloth]

Awesome essay! My favorite:

whatever your bugbear, you will find it therein - for the Continentals, excessive religiosity; for the Muslims, excessive decadence; for Harold Pinter, excessively bleeding rectums.

[xp38]

Reading Steyn on FR...one of the great joys in life.

[Hillarys nightmare]

I hope that you have found another church to attend, or that he has been replaced, by a more main stream conservative pastor.

[auboy]

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Thanks, Pokey78.

[JohnHuang2]

Thanks for the ping, Pokey :-)

[JohnHuang2]

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[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you so much for the ping!

[Mackey]

...the hatred of the US shown that day was the result of our "long history of isolationism and imperialism."

isolationism: a policy of national isolation by abstention from alliances and other international political and economic relations

imperialism: the policy, practice, or advocacy of extending the power and dominion of a nation especially by direct territorial acquisitions or by gaining indirect control over the political or economic life of other areas

Perhaps you should find a pastor who actually understands the meaning of his writings.

[MEG33]

Priceless Steyn!

[JohnHuang2]

Welcome :-)

[JohnHuang2]

Steyn RULES ;-)

[JohnHuang2]

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