[CGVet58]

BTTT super ping! Steyn, Hanson, Sowell - three Giants of the West.

[arbee4bush]

Dead on, direct hit--again. Steyn is awesome.

Pokey, Could you add me to your ping list?

Thanks

[Gritty]

Steyn again displays his nearly faultless strategic vision!

[eureka!]

Bump for later read...

[pissant]

Darn he's good. The male Ann Coulter.

[FeliciaCat]

"...The Shiites, for example, have adopted a moderate secular pitch entirely different from their co-religionist mullahs over the border. In fact, they sound a lot less loopy than, say, Senator Barbara Boxer of California did accusing Condi Rice of being a liar last week and then going all weepy and a-waily and claiming victim status because Condi declined to agree with her..."

SLAP!

[chatham]

Great Post, Mark Steyn is incomparable.
Truly a wonderful read.. Noonan could take a few pointers from Mr. Steyn.

[maica]

That’s where the realists are unrealistic. They’ve spent so long worshipping at the cult of stability they don’t realise it’s a total crock. The geopolitical scene is never stable, it’s always dynamic. If the Western world decides in 2005 that it can ‘contain’ President Sy Kottik of Wackistan indefinitely, that doesn’t mean the relationship between the two parties is set in aspic.


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What a contrast of this statement with the words of Peggy Noonan in today's Opinion Journal.

[numberonepal]

state-of-the-art primitive

I said these exact words to a buddy two days ago. Like minds and all.

[Paradox]

A particularly quotable essay by Mr. Stein today.

There is no status quo in world affairs: ‘stability’ is a fancy term to dignify laziness and complacency as sophistication.

Zing!

[Eva]

Thanks for posting this article, I'm going to save this one.

[the Real fifi]

This article is simply a work of genius. It is the must read article of the day, and I urge everyone on this thread to pass it on.

[Solar Wind]

Pokey,

Good post. Styne has a mind like a crowbar. A delight to read.

Please add me to your ping list.

Mr Sol.

[MeekOneGOP]

But these days we’re the ones who’ve lost our penises. The wise old foreign-policy birds insist that nothing can be done — Islam and democracy are completely incompatible, old man; everybody knows that, except these naive, blundering Yanks who just don’t have our experience, frankly. If that’s true, it’s a problem not for Iraq this weekend but, given current demographic trends, for France and Belgium and Holland and the United Kingdom a year or two down the line. But, as it happens, it’s not true. The Afghan election worked so well that, there being insufficient bad news out of it, the doom-mongers in the Western media pretended it never happened. The Iraqi election will be imperfect but more than good enough. OK, that’s a bit vague by the standards of my usual psephological predictions, so how about this? Turnout in the Kurdish north and Shia south will be higher than in the 2001 UK elections.

[DCPatriot]

Pokey...I love you.

Thanks for the Steyn pings.

[TChris]

Man... I love this man's writing!

[tjg]

Yah, Ping list me too please.

[maica]

If you only read one article today, make it this one.

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Steyn -
The Shiites, for example, have adopted a moderate secular pitch entirely different from their co-religionist mullahs over the border. In fact, they sound a lot less loopy than, say, Senator Barbara Boxer of California did accusing Condi Rice of being a liar last week and then going all weepy and a-waily and claiming victim status because Condi declined to agree with her. Even on the Sunni side of the street, there are signs that the smarter fellows understand their plans to scupper the election have flopped and it’s time to cut themselves into the picture. The IMF noted in November that the Iraqi economy is already outperforming all its Arab neighbours.

[cookcounty]

"Forty-four years ago, JFK had plenty of soaring rhetoric:  ‘We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.’

Can you, in your wildest dreams, imagine Senator Teddy talking like that?

[Lurker]

Thanks for the whole thing Pokey.

And just for the record, I hope when those ignorant muslims in other lands shake the hand of an American they really do get so scared that their d**** fall off.

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