Mark Steyn: The Arabs' Berlin Wall has crumbled

The Telegraph (U.K.) ^ | 03/01/05 | Mark Steyn

[ChadGore]

and the walls came down

[Pokey78]

Steyn ping!

[Andy from Beaverton]

The Arabs did take over when the Nazis left.

[facedown]

Steyn bump!

[tet68]

My god what a writer!

I don't like to say I told you so. But, actually, I do like to say I told you so. What I don't like to do is the obligatory false self-deprecatory thing to mitigate against the insufferableness of my saying I told you so. But nevertheless I did.

Steyn BUMP!

[Peach]

Ping.

"Palestinians expressed anger on Saturday at an overnight suicide bombing in Tel Aviv that killed four Israelis and threatened a fragile truce, a departure from former times when they welcomed attacks on their Israeli foes."

[alloysteel]

There is a very mischievious Djinni loose in the Middle East, and it doesn't look like it will be put back in the bottle any time soon. Even with Allah's help.

Or maybe the Djinni has come for Allah....

[ken21]

good article.

now i know what schnitt reads before he does his show!

[StrictTime]

And President Bush has to take crap from the likes of Chris Rock!

The Left is digging its own grave, and I couldn't be happier.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

It is amazing to see this all happening , quicker than I ever thought.

[Tax-chick]

Bump!

[My2Cents]

Three years ago - April 6 2002, if you want to rummage through the old Spectators in the attic - I wrote: "The stability junkies in the EU, UN and elsewhere have, as usual, missed the point. The Middle East is too stable. So, if you had to pick only one regime to topple, why not Iraq? Once you've got rid of the ruling gang, it's the West's best shot at incubating a reasonably non-insane polity. That's why the unravelling of the Middle East has to start not in the West Bank but in Baghdad."

I don't like to say I told you so. But, actually, I do like to say I told you so. What I don't like to do is the obligatory false self-deprecatory thing to mitigate against the insufferableness of my saying I told you so. But nevertheless I did.

Is Steyn the only guy in the media who figured out, one year before we toppled Saddam, what the purpose of our policy in Iraq was?

[Billthedrill]

The addendum, of course, is today's events in Lebanon. Things are getting very interesting in the Middle East.

[Dog]

"The stability junkies in the EU, UN and elsewhere have, as usual, missed the point. The Middle East is too stable. So, if you had to pick only one regime to topple, why not Iraq? Once you've got rid of the ruling gang, it's the West's best shot at incubating a reasonably non-insane polity. That's why the unravelling of the Middle East has to start not in the West Bank but in Baghdad."

Steyn was right......we pulled the thread called Iraq.....and the whole region unravels.

[Zivasmate]

Once again the superstar columnist comes thru in the clutch!
He gets it like no other writer and has more wit than all the Leftist MSM put together.

[Bahbah]

This makes me almost want to cry with joy. For years we watched such horrors and hypocracy and insults to everything decent and I would think we are the most powerful county in the history of mankind. Can we not do something. Then along came the guy from Texas with a vision that will knock your ten gallon hat off. I am very glad of that.

[Fred Nerks]

Somewhere in Hebrew legend there's a story that at any one time there are only 36 honourable men on earth - Steyn must be one of them.

[Tax-chick]

Sign for March 19:

Afghanistan ... Iraq ... Lebanon ... Egypt ... Saudi Arabia ... Syria ... Iran

FREEDOM MARCHES ON!

*You like?*

[TexasNative2000]

Steyn was right......we pulled the thread called Iraq.....and the whole region unravels.

It's one thing when a columnist gets it right and says "I told you so." It's quite another when the Leader of the Free World has the vision, acts on it, stands by his convictions, and events occur as envisioned. That, my friends, is leadership.