[Lando Lincoln]

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[68skylark]

If Sen. Kennedy wants to give rhetorical aid and comfort to the enemy, he could at least be less lazy about it.

Good line.

[Dark Glasses and Corncob Pipe]

"But I've had worse welcomes in Berkeley, so I chewed on, and, washed down with a pitcher of coliform bacteria, it wasn't bad."

Steyn's stein!

[aculeus]

Bump.

[Anti-Bubba182]

"..Here's a good rule of thumb: The Pentagon's demonstrated in two wars now that it's got beyond Vietnam. If a politician or pundit can't, pay him no further heed. If Sen. Kennedy wants to give rhetorical aid and comfort to the enemy, he could at least be less lazy about it..."

That is a good working theory. It also applies to the goofball net publications, pay them no heed:

Debka Recent Spew

[BlueAngel]

Great article that puts Iraq in prospective. Glad to see this in the Chicago Sun-Times.

I especially like Steyn mentioning Ted Kennedy's Chappaquiddick. Good dig!

[Dark Glasses and Corncob Pipe]

"The best way to make plain you're the winning side is to crush the other guys -- and rattle their teacups so loudly even CNN can't paint it as a setback."

I hope we are doing just that.

[tet68]

"...The best way to make plain you're the winning side is to crush the other guys -- and rattle their teacups so loudly even CNN can't paint it as a setback."

Steyn Bump.

[dep]

brilliant, as always. someday i'll disagree with steyn about something, but it hasn't happened yet, to my knowledge. he's sort of christopher hitchens without the curled-pinky pretension.

[claudiustg]

The Dems will be sorry for trotting out the defeatist garbage prematurely.

[VadeRetro]

Yes. Kick butt, take names. This is a Tet Offensive. Another week of this and they won't be able to do another thing for a year. If it wins for them, it will only be in the US press.

[VRW Conspirator]

...There are 300,000 people in that city [Fallujah]. A few score are depraved enough to cheer on the killers of four brave men; 299,900 of the town's population were either disapproving or indifferent.

And in the Arab world, the indifferent are the biggest demographic... The "dirty" little secret of the Arab world.

[Sabatier]

Steyn writes: "And in Iraq, the non-rattling of the teacups is received by the locals not as cultural respect from Bush and Blair but as weakness." Amend that to, "And in the Arabic world..."
Which is why the trembling media is the enemy's friend.

[Savage Beast]

As usual, Mark radiates wise words. Among the most sage:

"The Iraqi people don't want to be on the American side, only on the winning side."

Obviously:

"The best way to make plain you're the winning side is to crush the other guys"

Also obviously:

"Rattling teacups gets you a bad press from CNN and the BBC. But they give you a bad press anyway."

[Blood of Tyrants]

Rattle teacups my eye. I say we smash the whole damned cupboard.

[McGavin999]

Why didn't they kill me? Because, as Osama gloated after 9/11, when people see a strong horse and a weak horse, they go with the strong horse.

This is the point to remember. We have to stop them from using our civilization against us.

[samtheman]

The Iraqis will go with the winning side. And, though the Americans had a bad week last week, the insurgents had a worse one, losing as many men in seven days as U.S. forces did in the last year. The best way to make plain you're the winning side is to crush the other guys -- and rattle their teacups so loudly even CNN can't paint it as a setback.

Bush has already shown he understands this concept by not waiting around for all the theoretical discussions to reach a well-ordered conclusion (in other words: never) and instead just going in and invading Iraq.

Just do it. That's what got us there in the first place (over the heads of the wind-bagged theorists). And that's what will win this for us (over the heads of the whining nay-sayers).

Just do it. Go in there and kill the bad guys.

Just as the argument about Iraq is now over (even Joker Kerry says we have to "stay the course"), so the argument about military tactics will be over once we kill all the bad guys.

Kill them.

Just do it.

[Servant of the 9]

despite what Ted Kennedy says, Iraq is not ''George Bush's Vietnam.'' Or even George Bush's Chappaquiddick.

Sharpest cut of all.

So9

[LA Conservative]

They go with the strong horse, whether or not that strong horse is a monarchy, a military secular dictator, or an islamofacist theocracy.

It is in such an environment that I begin to have grave doubts as to whether a democracy can thrive in an Arab land, considering that the very beginning of their history revolves around bloody struggles, that Islam encourages lying and cheating for the sake of honor in the pursuit of ambition.

Maybe the previous Western leaders of last century knew what they were doing when they installed the strong man of their choosing. Perhaps we need to consider that strategy once again.

Don't get me wrong, I back Bush 100% and I think this is a noble and necessary effort, (see my tag line)but I think it is also healthy to debate the strategy.

[Slings and Arrows]

And in the Arab world, the indifferent are the biggest demographic. They sit things out, they see which strong horse has jostled his way to the head of the pack, and they go along with him. The Turks. The British. The British-installed king. The thug who murders the king. The thug who murders the thug who murders the king.

Israel, take note!