MARK STEYN: Relativist babble from another planet

Jerusalem Post ^ | 12-3-03 | MARK STEYN

[teldon30]

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[Peach]

So we can look forward to some demented DU'ers actually believing the president made the troops get up at 6:00 a.m. to be served turkey.

The depths of stupidity keep getting lower and lower.

[ctonious]

REALLY. WHILE you're at it, why not demand every freed Saudi get a couple of "dainty starlets" of his choice for the plane ride home?

Let's do better than that. Let's arrange for each of them to meet 72 dainty virgin starlets.

[Comus]

As a member of the Anglican Communion, I am so tired of having to apologise for Rowan Williams and Frank Griswold. Neither of these idiots would make a pimple on the ass of George W. Bush.

[ravingnutter]

According to the World Clock, if it was 6:00 AM in NY, it was about 2:00 PM in Iraq. What a dolt.

[ArGee]

Islamic terrorism is a beast that has to be killed, not patted and fed.

This reminds me of a scene from C.S. Lewis' The Great Divorce in which a man's sin is some kind of creature sitting on his shoulder and talking to him. An angel offers to kill the sin for him. The man says, "No, I'm trying to cut it off slowly." The angel raises his sword and says, "I can kill it right now if you like," but the man again refuses. After a long exchange the man relents and the angel cuts the sin-creature in half. (My quotes are not actual quotes but paraphrases from my weak memory.)

Oh, after the creature is cut in half, it becomes a beautiful guide.

Shalom.

[tbpiper]

but "before we lift a finger to help" the Americans

In recognition of our friends and allies, the Saudis, I lift a finger in salute.

[xzins]

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[Khepera]

Hi argee..

[Lurker]

Steyn rocks.

L

[Gritty]

Islamic terrorism is a beast that has to be killed, not patted and fed.

His Grace would no doubt disagree.

[ArGee]

Hi backatcha.

Shalom.

[dennisw]

 

 

 

New ping list for Islamic Jihad and terrorism. 3 pings per day, every day. Some from my old ping list are on by default.

On or off let me know by freepmail. 
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[Tax-chick]

Steyn must be really angry ... this isn't even funny! Obviously some things are too horrible even for his level of humor, and "Dr. Williams" is one of them.

God bless President Bush!

[Tares]

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[Pokey78]

thanks Tares!

[Rummyfan]

Really! This is one of Steyn's angrier pieces. I suppose he is frustrated with the Useful Idiots who refuse to see what their noses are being rubbed in. None so blind as they that refuse to see.

[LiteKeeper]

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[Billthedrill]

For two years now, it's been apparent that increasing numbers of us are living in entirely self-created realities.

BTT for a nicely-turned phrase. The refusal to face the monster that is Islamic terrorism is based largely on the fact that its very existence threatens a number of comfortable assumptions on the left, notably the moral equivalency of murderer and victim. Acknowledgment of the difference causes a number of basic premises to need to be re-examined. That can be very difficult for someone who prefers certitude to truth.