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Mark Steyn: Mideast Instability? Bring it On!
The Jerusalem Post ^
| April 21, 2004
| Mark Steyn
Posted on 04/21/2004 2:51:18 PM PDT by quidnunc
In the summer of 2002, Amr Moussa, secretary-general of the Arab League, issued a stern warning to the BBC: a US invasion of Iraq would "threaten the whole stability of the Middle East." As I wrote at the time, "He's missing the point: that's the reason it's such a great idea."
I thought about Mr. Moussa a lot this past week. I was invited to speak at the United States Naval Academy's foreign affairs conference, a great honor for a foreigner. I wasn't the star attraction that was Condoleezza Rice; I was merely a warm-up act.
Anyway, I was struck by a phrase in Dr. Rice's address that I don't believe I've heard her use before. She was talking about the fourth plane on September 11th, Flight 93, the one that crashed into a field in Pennsylvania en route to destroy either the Capitol or the White House. If it had reached the latter, that would have been the "money shot" that day, as it was in the alien-invasion flick Independence Day the center of American power reduced to rubble. What happened on 9/11, said Rice, was an attempt to "decapitate us." If not for quirks of flight scheduling and al-Qaida personnel management, the headlines would have included "The Vice-President is still among the missing, presumed dead" or if they'd got really lucky that the presidency had passed to the president pro tem of the Senate, octogenarian West Virginia Democrat, porkmeister and former Klansman Robert Byrd.
In other words, if you're wondering why this administration's approach to terrorism is so focused on regime change, it's because the terrorists came so close to changing America's regime.
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(Excerpt) Read more at jpost.com ...
TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Israel; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: anotherstupidexcerpt; bushdoctrine; condoleezzarice; doomsdayscenario; marksteyn
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To: Steve_Seattle
I've always thought that if one of the planes had crashed into the Capital dome, Americans would have taken 9-11 far more seriously, particularly if a lot of members of Congress were taken out.But once we had gotten over the loss of our historic building, would we really be so angry at losing the congress-critters?
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04/21/2004 7:18:49 PM PDT
by
whd23
To: shezza
Cool site...Thanks!
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posted on
04/21/2004 8:00:13 PM PDT
by
lainde
(Heads up...We're coming and we've got tongue blades!!)
To: quidnunc
The issue is that there are plenty of other people here who would post Steyn's articles in full.
By constantly posting first, you prevent that from happening, because a second posting would be removed by the Moderator. Thus, they are prevented from ever being posted in full and are not archived.
Maybe JR would make an exception for Steyn articles?
You give the strong impression that you WANT to piss people off, and want to ensure that Mark's articles are not preserved.
And if we "avoid your threads" we don't get to read Steyn...cutting off our noses to spite our face...a predicament you seem to derive pleasure from.
Sort of like a troll.
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04/21/2004 8:13:27 PM PDT
by
moonhawk
(Actually, I'm voting FOR John Kerry....Before I vote AGAINST him.)
To: moonhawk
moonhawk wrote:
The issue is that there are plenty of other people here who would post Steyn's articles in full.Yep, but mostly they don't.
So why don't you surf the Web to make sure that you find and post all the Steyn articles first?
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04/21/2004 8:22:22 PM PDT
by
quidnunc
(Omnis Gaul delenda est)
To: NonValueAdded
"Get a free email account on Yahoo! or even the new Google, use it for your signups, turn on the spam filter, and never bother to check the inbox again."
Do you have something against paid email accounts and/or spam? I thought they were part of our capitalistic duty.
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04/22/2004 8:17:50 AM PDT
by
iranger
To: iranger
No, nothing against paid email accounts - I have one. The "free" yahoo accounts are covered by the banner and popup advertising so they are not free in the strict sense of the word; it is what the market will bear. The real point is that the registration / privacy issue is a red herring. There are many ways to be registered without yielding up privacy rights and becoming a spam target. Unless the concern is having the xyz-herald know your IP address. If you want to discuss it further, please take it to the chat thread here:
Mark Steyn: to excerpt or not to excerpt
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posted on
04/22/2004 8:42:27 AM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
(He says "Bring it on!!" Then when you do, he says, "How dare you!! ")
To: NonValueAdded
Relax dude it was a joke. Oh and no thanks, there are more interesting subjects to discuss than squid's steyn excerpting.
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04/22/2004 9:39:40 AM PDT
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iranger
To: nothingnew
Can someone post it in full?Are you CRAZY?! If someone did that, do you know thw -snip- Excerpted - click for full article ^ FMCDH
HAHAHA!!!!
Oh no -- I can't talk right now....the Full Posting Police are after me.... - snip -
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04/23/2004 10:56:41 AM PDT
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ConservativeStLouisGuy
(11th FReeper Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Unnecessarily Excerpt)
To: Rummyfan
Thanks for posting the FULL article, Rummy! Much appreciated!
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04/23/2004 10:58:26 AM PDT
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ConservativeStLouisGuy
(11th FReeper Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Unnecessarily Excerpt)
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