[Pokey78]

[Miss Marple]

Their most effective guerrillas aren't in the Hindu Kush, where it is the work of moments to drop a daisycutter on the mighty Pashtun warrior. They're travelling light on the bridle-paths of Europe - the small cells that operate in the nooks and crannies of a free society, while politicians cling to the beaten tracks - old ideas, multicultural pieties and a general hope that things will turn out for the best.

This is an excellent point. I wonder how many cells are in the US?

[billorites]

the "Neville again" routine

Snort, guffaw...

[evad]

'Eurabia' will rise on the ashes of what was once Europe..
unless
these idiots are exposed and somehow removed from influence.

Actually, that would be fine with me EXCEPT I know we'll get sucked into it...AGAIN!!

[thoughtomator]

And for a while, on my drive down to town, I'd pass Junior in the yard playing with his shield, mastering the art of cowering more effectively against unseen blows.

Steyn is the master of metaphor. I am not worthy to read such wit!

[scoopscandal]

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[JWinNC]

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[Qwinn]

"Don't ask me why Greenpeace is opposed to the liberation of Iraq. It's been marvellous for the eco-system: the marshlands of southern Iraq are now being restored after decades of Saddamite devastation."

Excellent point. And Steyn doesn't even mention the oil well fires and the oil spill that Saddam deliberately created to punish Kuwait and Saudi Arabia in 1991, at least ten (and some estimates say twenty) times the size of the Exxon Valdez spill. He also spilled millions of tons of oil into the -desert-, believe it or not... creating massive on-land oil spills for little more than Carthagenian spite as he retreated from U.S. forces in Kuwait.

By -all- accounts, Saddam Hussein was the biggest bio-terrorist in world history. No single individual has done more to destroy the land and environment than him - NONE. No, not even the worst oil-guzzling SUV drivers in the U.S. could ever dream of collectively doing as much damage to Mother Gaea as Saddam Hussein did.

And yet, the Greens were okay with keeping him in power. Why?

Well, I am one who believes this really needs a treatise-length analysis (and Steyn's just the guy to do it actually). But here's my short answer: Because this is validation of what many, including myself, have been saying all along. Greens are absolutely NOTHING except a front for Communist ideology. They are watermelons - green on the outside, red on the inside. Saddam, as a Baathist, was more Communist than anything else, and as such he was tolerable to them.

What -this- proves it that if ever any conflict occurs between their real and mask ideologies, where the purported greens need to choose between green and red, they'll pick red, and they'll pick red -every- time, because if Saddam couldn't motivate them to actually stick to their green principles over red, nothing ever will.

This point needs to be expanded upon a LOT more in the media, but of course that will never happen outside of conservative media.

Qwinn

[McGavin999]

He speaks with so much clarity, you have to wonder if the europeans understand a word of it.

[Ichneumon]

appeasement is even less effective when the faraway country of which you know little is your own.

Ooooh, *that's* gonna leave a mark...

[mylife]

I was struck by the way the Muslims of Araby were far less inflamed than those in the alienated immigrant ghettoes around Paris and Amsterdam.

And this is what the dems would have for our future. Great multitudes of oppressed people on the doles.

In their own odd way Arabs have a keen awareness of honor, something there is no place for in the world of eurocrats and socialists.

Steyn has a keen eye

[Aeronaut]

"Never again" has evolved to mean precisely the kind of passivity that enabled the Holocaust first time round. "Neville again" would be a better slogan.

This man can turn a phrase.

[Agnes Heep]

The inability of the state to secure even the three highest-profile targets in the realm - the Queen, her heir, her Parliament - should remind us that a defensive war against terrorism will ensure terrorism.

Unless you're Israel, in which case it's "Juden raus!" and into the gas chambers without a murmer.

[DuncanWaring]

"The people of Madrid are reaping the fruits of our intolerance towards those of different races and religions. The war in Iraq was never going to solve the problems of that region but instead inflamed Arab people all over the world to new heights of anger towards the West."

All those who spout this claptrap can never explain why the Taliban destroyed the thousand-year-old statues of Buddha.

Somehow, I doubt it is because they don't like America.

[FreedomPoster]

>>"Neville again" would be a better slogan.

Devestatingly accurate. Steyn weilds words like a rapier.

[Billthedrill]

That's why the fact that thousands of Iraqis are no longer being murdered by their government is trivial when weighed against the use of Anglo-American military force required to effect their freedom.

That's also why every one of them prefers to talk principle rather than result. That is, in fact, moral cowardice.

Steyn has hit a sore spot here - a sharp point, and it isn't, IMHO, particularly humorous. It is simply this: under the principles of national sovereignty, intervening at Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen to save the Jews was wrong, despite the clear common-sense humanitarian moral imperative to do so. When this sort of dissonance is experienced, it's time to re-examine these principles. But the left refuses do so - and that is the moral cowardice of which I speak.

[Gritty]

BTTT

[jordan8]

I gave my niece's son a Vietnam GI Joe a couple of years ago . They took away his M-16 and knife. They left his claymore, though.

[Susannah]

Thank God for Winston Churchill!

"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last." - Winston Churchill

[Rummyfan]

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