Mark Steyn: Iraq has never had it so good

The Spectator (U.K.) ^ | 03/27/04 | Mark Steyn

[MeekOneGOP]

hahaha ! Yeah, Bart sez it well ! ;^)

[Rutabega]

AMEN!!!!!

[Brian Allen]

<< I love this man! There are few that are his equal with the English tongue! >>

Few?

Any, perhaps?

Best ones -- B A

[Thanks for the Ping, Pokes]

bumpPING

[TheDon]

Many Iraqis are voting with their feet. The UN High Commission for Refugees, which was expecting about two million new refugees to flee from the war last year, instead found no takers. All the traffic’s the other way, and the UN is now closing down its camps around Iraq’s borders owing to lack of business. The other day, the UN’s Ashrafi Camp in Iran, after 30 years as the largest Iraqi refugee facility, threw in the towel when the last refugee went home. Despite being advised by UNHCR that it was unsafe to do so, a million Iraqis are said to have gone back. Not bad for a country which in Saddam’s day was the fifth-largest exporter of refugees.

This is the biggest indicator about whether or not things are improving in Iraq over a year ago.

I am one American who wishes the Iraqis the very best as they embark on their 'experiment'!

[arasina]

Stellar Steyn. I especially love the metaphor in this sentence:

The theory some of us have advanced for two and a half years now is that the region’s stability — the stability of a petrified septic tank — is the problem, and that any upturning of that stability would be hard put to make things worse.

[Constantine XIII]

"a veritable quagjam of imminent catastrophe"

LOL

[kevkrom]

Steyn for White House Press Secretary!

[McGavin999]

Which would you bet on? Iraq and Afghanistan? Or Haiti and Kosovo?

That just about says it all.

[gatorgriz]

Steyn, well Steyn, he's a master wordsmith...

[stands2reason]

Toirdhealbheach

I bret it's pronounced something like "Tor-OOSH" huh? Them celts shore like their letters...

[stands2reason]

I think I found it -- Turlough?

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

When will it be determined that iraq can make it without a couple hundred billion of our money being poured in?

Not that long, the north is already booming.

I guess it's out of the question to expect them to pay US back.

Who knows? Europe didn't but Iraq may have more class.

Even the prissy-pants french sent us a really big statue for saving their bacon.

Excuse me? Just when did this happen?

[Yardstick]

Steyn knocks another one out of the park

Steyn proves again that he's the Michael Jordan of pundits

Steyn rocks!

Steyn bump

A year's worth of incision... just like last week's Steyn piece

Steyn does it again

Is Steyn's well bottomless?

It's getting tough to find new ways of praising Steyn's columns.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Sorry I'm late...just discovered how to find FR...(withdrawal has subsided.)

[Democratshavenobrains]

If the Lefties had a writer half as talented as Steyn, we would be in trouble. Compare this to the inane ramblings of Dowd.

[Billthedrill]

Egad - I'm still shaking from FR withdrawal. Horrible! But you know what? The antidote is a Mark Steyn column!

Look at it this way. Which would you bet on? Iraq and Afghanistan? Or Haiti and Kosovo?

If the Iraqis do pull off a national government, it'll be raucous, disrespectful, noisy, infuriating, inconsistent, and a royal pain in the butt to deal with. Just like ours, and every other representative government on the face of the earth.

[Cultural Jihad]

BTTT

[PhilDragoo]

Mark Steyn:

There will be movement in both Iran and Syria before the end of the year.

We would hope, the heads of Bashir and Khamenei from their shoulders.

Into a pair of jars by the door.

Available in reproduction from Neocon Canning.

Photo credit: Dead Men Sitting Club, Local 666, Middle Eastern Division

[nuconvert]

"Dead Men Sitting Club, Local 666, Middle Eastern Division"

LoL

[alwaysconservative]

Oh, thank you, thank you for the ping, and I'm soooooo grateful to get back on FR! I was getting the shakes pretty badly, LOL!