Mark Steyn: Defiant? He's a Ba'athist who won't bath

The Telegraph (U.K.) ^ | 12/16/03 | Mark Steyn

[Pokey78]

Sure!

[AFreeBird]

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[X-FID]

Somehow I have to get this guy in my local paper.

He appears in the leftist rag "Chicago Spun-times" among others, so anything is possible.

[Gritty]

Why isn't Steyn on every cable show in sight and every newspaper in the country?

Nobody writes any better nor thinks more lucidly!

[Not gonna take it anymore]

Thank you.

[connectthedots]

Note to headline writer: Bath should be bathe.

[Pokey78]

OK.

[knews_hound]

I am on the ping list already and I cannot thank you enough for doing this for us Pokey.

The truly stunning thing about Steyns writing is, that even though he is one of the most widely read and admired columnists here at FR his work rarely has a long comments section after.

But then.

Once Steyn says it, there is really little more to say.

Cheers,

knews hound

[Billthedrill]

All these institutions do is enable nickel'n'dime thugs to punch above their weights.

That's...just...perfect. And yes, I wish I'd written it.

[ShorelineMike]

He seems to be roughing out the contours of a new club here: dictatorships need not apply, but nor need those democracies that serve as the dictators' front men in polite society (are you listening, Jacques?).

M. ChIraq n'écoutera jamais.

(bows down before statue of M. Steyn) I will have truly believed I have died and gone to heaven when Mark's columns appear in either of the liberal rags here in Seattle.

[xp38]

He was on FR radio a while back and was great. He also has a droll english accent.

[onebullmoose]

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[mylife]

I was waiting for this article since yesterday! Just took a nap and you scooped it!! :^)
Steyn is the best.

But he's (GW) in no hurry to return to the Security Council fairyland of make-believe resolutions that never get enforced. On Sunday morning, his speed-call list was restricted to the Coalition of the Willing – the prime ministers of Britain, Australia, Poland, Italy and Spain. He seems to be roughing out the contours of a new club here: dictatorships need not apply, but nor need those democracies that serve as the dictators' front men in polite society (are you listening, Jacques?).

Bingo Mark, GW realizes that the last 80 yrs of policy in the middle east have been fruitless. He IS attempting to revolutionize middle east policy . He's not going to drag the world kicking and screaming to the club, poseurs need not apply.

[mylife]

STEYN PING

[McGavin999]

Steyn is just plain brilliant!

[randog]

Why isn't Steyn on every cable show in sight and every newspaper in the country?

I've wondered that, too. I can understand that CNN or PMSNBC wouldn't have him on because he'd wipe the floor with the lib'ral hosts/guests, but what about Fox? It'd be a real feather in their cap if they could get him on as a regular contributor. Steyn is so smart it's spooky.

[PogySailor]

...it's the willingness of Kofi Annan, Mohammed el-Baradei, Chris Patten, Mary Robinson and the other grandees of the international clubrooms to give "legitimacy" to Saddam, Kim Jong-Il, Arafat, Assad and co that disqualifies them from any role in Iraq. I've come to the conclusion that the entire international system needs to be destroyed.

Hear hear!

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[sistergoldenhair]

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[Jonathon Spectre]

I've come to the conclusion that the entire international system needs to be destroyed.

This guy is the best columnist in the world today.