Mark Steyn: How the West will win and continue to deny it

The Sunday Telegraph (U.K.) ^ | 01/04/04 | Mark Steyn

[mylife]

Pingeroony

[stands2reason]

Canadian living in New Hampshire, married, hasn't mentioned any children.

[NovemberCharlie]

In a couple of columns, he's mentioned a daughter. Not by name, though.

[stands2reason]

Whose P.J. O'Rourke, and whose he a cross between?

Here's a sample of PJ- part of his rant to a whiny European:

We're the baddest-assed sons of b*tches that ever jogged in Reeboks. We're three quarters grizzly bear and two-thirds car wreck and descended from a stock market crash on our mother's side. You take your Germany, France and Spain, roll them all together and it wouldn't give us room to park our cars. We're the big boys, Jack, the original, giant, economy-sized new and improved butt kickers of all time. When we snort coke in Houston, people lose their hats in Cap d'Antibes. And we've got an American Express card credit limit higher than your piss-ant metric numbers go.

You say our country's never been invaded? You're right, little buddy. Because I'd like to see the needle-dick foreigners who'd have the guts to try. We drink napalm to get our hearts started in the morning. A rape and a mugging is our way of saying "Cheerio". Hell can't hold our sock hops.

We walk taller, talk louder, spit further, f*** longer and buy more things than you know the names of. I'd rather be a junkie in a New York City jail than king, queen and jack of all Europeans. We eat little countries like this for breakfast and sh*t them out before lunch.

Of course, the guy should have punched me. But this was Europe. He just smiled his shabby, superior European smile. (Gosh, don't these people have dentists?)

[Allan]

He was born in Canada
but he seems to have been educated
primarily in England.

I have heard him on the Hugh Hewitt show
and he speaks with a strong regional British accent
(northern, I would say, but I could be wrong.

[stylin_geek]

Heck, just search FR for P.J. O'Rourke.

[knighthawk]

Ping

[mylife]

How many assassination attempts will be made on General Musharraf? Half-a-dozen at least. I hope he survives them all, but presiding over one of the most worm-ridden props of the War on Terror (Saudi Arabia's the other) is a dicey business and he is approaching the point in the Pakistani non-electoral cycle at which either exile or death beckons.

A very series situation indeed it may be hugh.

PAK is critical in this war Pakistan must become a true democracy...Musharaffs willingness to give up military power is indeed dicey. Good luck to Pervez...We need it. Pakistan Turkey Afghanistan Iraq Israel and hopfully Iran will be Stategic places of democracy in the middle east, perhaps not democracy in the way we know it, but useful toward change none the least.

[MEG33]

True!

[mylife]

Even more numerous attempts will be made to kill the European Constitution, but it will survive in increasingly slippery and dishonest form. By year's end, the Afghans and Iraqis will be nearer their final constitutional settlement than Europe.

Wh00p!! :^) Its funny coz its true...Maybe not the afghans ;^)

[mylife]

there is Just too much reality in Mark's article.
I want to comment on every line..but i cant improve on Steyn.

[spodefly]

Steyn is a treasure ... gifted and prolific, and almost always totally right.

[Allan]

Yes
he has lived in New Hampshire for several years.

[tet68]

You can't wind up the UN, but you can let it wither,

Right now it's ,"....twisting slowly,slowly in the wind."

[mylife]

whatever its success in managing the realities of the Cold War stalemate for 40 years, the international order manifested in the UN, the Hague and other institutions seems increasingly ill-suited to the challenges of the new century. Even if it wasn't anti-American, it's useless.

You can't wind up the UN, but you can let it wither, and find, as the Americans and British did with Libya, ways of bypassing it that will eventually ensure it is hardly ever brought to mind for anything of consequence. That's the way to measure the health of the world in 2004.

The man is brilliant.

[Tax-chick]

P.J. O'Rourke is a libertarian columnist from Ohio. He's an original!

[wizardoz]

A rape and a mugging is our way of saying "Cheerio".

Uhm... that's Australia.

[irv]

In autumn three years will have passed since the late Osama bin Laden's last public appearance. This will be evidence to Bush-bashers of how brilliantly he continues to elude capture.

My favorite part, though it's unfortunate that the second part is true.

[OkiMusashi]

Steyn is KING!! The first Steyn article that I ever read was : http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0502/steyn052402.asp

I've been hooked ever since.