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Mark Steyn: What's US Policy on Europe? No Giggling
The Telegraph ^
| February 20, 2005
| Mark Steyn
Posted on 02/19/2005 3:18:00 PM PST by quidnunc
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To: Eurotwit
I knew if I scrolled down, some kind soul would post the whole thing. Thanks!
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posted on
02/19/2005 4:05:35 PM PST
by
Dog Gone
To: quidnunc
[ When these subjects come up, US policy is to nod politely and try not to giggle. ]
URP'eons are a legends in their own minds.... kind of like Canadians except Canadians are dwarves..
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posted on
02/19/2005 4:05:42 PM PST
by
hosepipe
(This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole....)
To: nothingnew
What does all this mean? Nothing. In victory, magnanimity and right now Bush can afford to be magnanimous, even if Europe isn't yet ready to acknowledge his victory. Which is precisely where we are at diplomatically.
I don't expect anything substantivelly to improve with President Bush's visit. It may pay dividends down the road when Europe replaces their current leaders and admits the obvious. Bush was right.
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posted on
02/19/2005 4:15:23 PM PST
by
Dog Gone
To: Eurotwit
On the other hand, a new CIA analysis has predicted the collapse of the EU within 15 years. Can anyone tell me where to find this? Thx
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posted on
02/19/2005 4:18:29 PM PST
by
mardler
(The market always wins)
To: quidnunc
For weeks now, the Administration's hardline Zionist Christian fundamentalist neocon unilateralist warmongers have been coming into the office to find smiley-face reminders from the White House pinned to the desk: "Have you hugged a European foreign minister today?" Oh, my! What delicious sarcasm!
Steyn BUMP!! (No giggling, though......)
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posted on
02/19/2005 4:21:12 PM PST
by
ohioWfan
(W.........STILL the President!!)
To: quidnunc
Nice to see the "hiatus" is ended. SteynOnLine is back up and running.
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posted on
02/19/2005 5:08:36 PM PST
by
WarrenC
To: mardler
I don't remember the article title, but it was posted here, at least in part. You might search the CIA webpage.
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posted on
02/19/2005 5:22:10 PM PST
by
Dog Gone
To: AmishDude
Steyn's predictions aren't better than others'. Nobody's perfect. Lots of folks thought Osama was cave splatter.
But compared to his colleages in the MSM, Steyn looks like an oracle. He correctly predicted:
- A good outcome in Afghanistan, ridiculing the "graveyard of empire" and "brutal Afghan winter" nonsense
- A quick victory in Iraq, in which the Iraqis folded up like a tinfoil pie pan
- The victory of John Howard in Australia
- The victory of George Bush (Steyn was the earliest guy I know who proclaimed that Kerry didn't have a prayer)
- The positive outcome of the Iraqi election
- The perfidy of the UN in various recent happenings
So I have to rank him pretty high. What predictions besides Osama's death has he made incorrectly? (I seem to recall he didn't think Kerry would take the Democratic primary, but he wasn't adamant about that and didn't think any of the candidates had a decisive advantage.)
To: quidnunc
"The French Foreign Minister took to calling the US Secretary of State "chère Condi" every 30 seconds."
That's because the French FM is on the make...nothing more.
To: Eurotwit
Thanks for the whole article, Eurotwit.
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posted on
02/19/2005 6:15:30 PM PST
by
Starve The Beast
(I used to be disgusted, but now I try to be amused)
To: mardler
mardler wrote:
(On the other hand, a new CIA analysis has predicted the collapse of the EU within 15 years.} Can anyone tell me where to find this? ThxI believe there was an article about this in The Scotsman.
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posted on
02/19/2005 6:23:26 PM PST
by
quidnunc
(Omnis Gaul delenda est)
To: mardler
Try going here:
http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=56762005
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posted on
02/19/2005 6:26:57 PM PST
by
quidnunc
(Omnis Gaul delenda est)
To: mardler
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posted on
02/19/2005 7:38:14 PM PST
by
Chgogal
To: McGavin999; quidnunc
<< Europe will still be claiming that Arabs can't handle democracy when the Iraqis are celebrating their centennial. >>
Just as, these two-hundred-odd years on -- the mailand Euro-peons and their squalidly-socialiSStic offshore-satellite-state-subject Limeys are still so superciliously so claiming of US!
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posted on
02/20/2005 12:07:14 AM PST
by
Brian Allen
(I fly and can therefore be envious of no man -- Per Ardua ad Astra!)
To: Eurotwit
Thank you for posting the ENTIRE piece.
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posted on
02/20/2005 2:08:43 AM PST
by
Grenada
To: Eurotwit
THANK YOU! I was pretty sure we don't have excerpt from the Guardian (UK).
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posted on
02/20/2005 3:52:20 PM PST
by
alwaysconservative
(Tagline temporarily under construction)
To: Eurotwit
Make that the Telegraph (blush!)
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posted on
02/20/2005 3:53:01 PM PST
by
alwaysconservative
(Tagline temporarily under construction)
To: Eurotwit
And now the President himself is on his way, staying up all night on Air Force One trying to master the official State Department briefing paper on the European Rapid Reaction Force, the European Constitution, the European negotiations with Iran, etc. ("When these subjects come up, US policy is to nod politely and try not to giggle. If you feel a massive hoot of derision coming on, duck out to the men's room, but without blaming it on the escargots.") LOL! Best line of the whole article.
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posted on
02/20/2005 7:25:05 PM PST
by
prairiebreeze
(Blogs have a strangle hold on the MSM. The MSM is kicking out the windshield.)
To: Joe Bonforte
Steyn's predictions aren't better than others'.
I`ve never heard of a columnist promise in print to resign if he was mistaken, but Steyn did, in the Telegraph, vow to do just that if Bush did not win in November.
Now, if we could just get Fisk and all those others who promised us Afghan quagmires, Iraqi election fiasco, and a Kerry victory,to oblige us by resigning in shame.
Silly me, of course not, they don't even pause for a moment before venturing forth to view the future through the same mirror they used the last time.
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posted on
02/21/2005 12:50:49 PM PST
by
andrewwood
(andrewwood)
To: Joe Bonforte
Steyn's predictions aren't better than others'.
I`ve never heard of a columnist promise in print to resign if he was mistaken, but Steyn did, in the Telegraph, vow to do just that if Bush did not win in November.
Now, if we could just get Fisk and all those others who promised us Afghan quagmires, Iraqi election fiasco, and a Kerry victory,to oblige us by resigning in shame.
Silly me, of course not, they don't even pause for a moment before venturing forth to view the future through the same mirror they used the last time.
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posted on
02/21/2005 12:52:47 PM PST
by
andrewwood
(andrewwood)
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