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[Dog]

. The Celebrity Catch of 2004 will be Mullah Omar.

From Steyn's fingertips to God' ear.

[mitchbert]

The October Surprise will be the removal of Arafat. This will be a good thing.

The Arab States seem to be moving there, from things I'm seeing.

[mac_truck]

By year's end, the Afghans and Iraqis will be nearer their final constitutional settlement than Europe.

Worth repeating.

[facedown]

Thanks Pokey!

...Slobo got himself elected to the Serbian Parliament,...

First I'd heard of this but, sure enough, it's apparently true:

Milosevic wins seat in parliament

Amazing...

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Iraq will be the least ill-governed state in the Middle East.

That is sort of like being the cleanest hippie at Woodstock. Still, it's a start.

[mylife]

Pingeroony

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[McGavin999]

The bad part of just letting the UN wither is that WE still have to pay 25% of their operating costs and 60% of their aid costs. That's a pretty stiff price to pay to something that will still be around to bite our ankles.

[Dialup Llama]

>The Celebrity Catch of 2004 will be Mullah Omar.

I'll keep an eye out for that.

[Paul Ross]

Bump. Steyn is quite on the money, so he has started off the New Year right again!

[CaptRon]

Those do-gooders who fret about "lawlessness" and "insecurity" in Baghdad would be better off turning their attention to the United Kingdom: the demand of Radio 4's Today listeners for the entirely reasonable right to kill burglars

They should also turn their attention to their Member of Parliament who said, ""We are going to have to re-evaluate the listenership of Radio 4."