[irv]

Sentimental liberal internationalism -- everything has to be done through the U.N., no matter how stinkingly corrupt and ineffectual it is -- is just as inadequate to the challenges of the age.

Steyn has a way of almost casually making points that should be shouted from the rooftops.

Interestingly, this is one of the things that makes him a great writer. He doesn't pound every point home when it has little or nothing to do with the particular article. He just tosses it in there and then goes back ot his point.

(I like to think of myself as a good writer. It is truly humbling to have just learned something from a master.)

[88keys]

"Steyn has a way of almost casually making points that should be shouted from the rooftops."

irv, that is very perceptive...you are clearly a good writer yourself to pick up on what makes Steyn's writing so...so something, but words fail me, LOL! ("compelling", maybe?!)

Pokey, thanks for the *ping*...I do think this may be one of the best articles Steyn's ever written, and it should be "shouted from the rooftops", or at the very least re-printed in syndication in all the local newsrags...

Good point about "Tides", C.A.....there is just so much "out there"...if I can "Google", why can't the NYT, et. al.?! Isn't this in the interests of the "electorate"?? < sigh >

*ping* to the optimist and Con...entire article at post 22, and a most excellent read you might be interested in...the remark about "psychology" is one of those "seemingly casual" references (Steyn's not a PHD or anything, far as I know) that, IMHO, is righton the mark...interesting thought! ;)