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

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

[chiller]

I don't understand, Oki...I was marking columns for later read, including your first one, which I had not seen, even though I've been a Steyn fan for a long while.

[metesky]

A great column full of the usual quotable Steynisms.

Thanks, Pokey.

[Jarhead_22]

I predict that this trend will continue throughout 2004. In November, after Howard Dean, the Democrats' Mister Angry, gets trounced in the Presidential election, the BBC's Washington correspondent will declare that the Bush landslide represents a devastating setback for the Administration and is said to have left the President "badly shaken".

Classic.

[Jarhead_22]

Sounds like a bad idea to me. A democracy of semi-literate Koran-memorizers is not a thing to be wished for.

VERY well said!

The rest of the world is much better off with Pakistan under a benign dictatorship.

[Damocles]

bttt = bump to the top

It moves the story to the top of the recent posts list and is not an insult (at least that I'm aware of).

Just trying to clarify...

[FreedomPoster]

If you think about it, it's how Singapore and South Korea have "made it". Taiwan, too. Benign dictatorship with capitalism transitioning to an elected representative government.

Both Germany and Japan had benign dictatorships for several years after WWII, Japan under Douglas MacArthur, Germany under Maxwell Taylor and others. During this period, they were transitioned to representative republican government.

I worry that we are hurrying this transition in Iraq, imperiling our bold attempt to introduce this form of govenment into the Middle East among Arab peoples (obviously, it already exists there among Jewish people). This is happening because many people have been duped into thinking that elected representative government is easily attained and maintained.

[mollynme]

In other words, this time next year the Democrats will be deep in recriminations about how they wound up as the party of elderly feminists and greying peacenik professors in a few upper-middle-class college towns, plus the blacks. The key question is whether they can hold off starting the bloodbath until after Election Day.

I love this guy!

[OkiMusashi]

oopsy Daisy!!

I thought it was a request to get "Back to the thread". I have privately apologized and now, I make it public.

My mistake. It will never happen again.

Mush the Dumb Okie

[ctonious]

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

O'Rourke is my favorite political satirist, and also lives in New Hampshire. So speaking of searches, has anybody heard anything from him lately about the 'Rat fest going on all around him?

[PLK]

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

Steyn is of the opinion that bin Laden is pushing up daisies in some God-forsaken rubble of a cave in Afghanistan. He has voiced this frequently in his articles.

[PLK]

Some days the media is so full of nonsense, only Steyn assures me I have not entered a parallel universe.

You are so right. This morning's Sunday news shows were a perfect of example of "media nonsense." I could throw a brick at the teevee every time I hear a question related to the Democratic candidates' insistence that the "unprovoked" war on Saddam was wrong. NO ONE ASKS A FOLLOWUP QUESTION TO COMPARE IT TO CLINTON'S WAR ON MILOSIVEC. It is crazy. I have NEVER heard the question presented in any way, shape, or form. Chris Wallace on Fox asked the Republican Committee Chairman this question this morning. I could have hurled.

[irv]

Steyn is of the opinion that bin Laden is pushing up daisies in some God-forsaken rubble of a cave in Afghanistan.

Not an unreasonable conclusion, either. But at present, it is unproveable.

[P.O.E.]

At Least Slobodan Milosevic Was Elected

And more from Billy Britain

[88keys]

Never mind events that have not yet occurred: we now live in a world where there is no agreement on events that have already happened.

For example, last year I thought the Americans won an amazing military victory in Iraq; the European media, by contrast, thought the Yanks were bogged down in a bloody Vietnam-style quagmire from which there was no escape save ignominious retreat.

"Ignominious" is one of my favorite words...more accurately applied to some of the Democrat candidates, the French, or the U.N., and Steyn will get to it, LOL!!

Thanks for the *ping*, Pokey...as others have said, Steyn is really a voice of sanity amongst all the "nattering nabobs", and he turns a great phrase to boot!

[foreshadowed at waco]

In other words, this time next year the Democrats will be deep in recriminations about how they wound up as the party of elderly feminists and greying peacenik professors in a few upper-middle-class college towns, plus the blacks.

The Democrats deserve to be roundly defeated. They have become the party of the abortion industry and the environmental fascist movement.

[mylife]

PING!....I cant think of a better way to introduce you to FR than Mark Steyn!