Mark Steyn: The Arabs' Berlin Wall has crumbled

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

[petercooper]

thanks for the ping

[Ciexyz]

115 killed in Iraq suicide bombing

Distressing news. The battle against evil and evildoers is far from over.

[PzLdr]

Paul Wolfowitz

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From the article:

And, for perhaps the most remarkable development, consider this report from Mohammed Ballas of Associated Press: "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."

No disrespect to Associated Press, but I was disinclined to take their word for it. However, Charles Johnson, whose Little Green Footballs website has done an invaluable job these past three years presenting the ugly truth about Palestinian death-cultism, reported that he went hunting around the internet for the usual photographs of deliriously happy Gazans dancing in the street and handing out sweets to celebrate the latest addition to the pile of Jew corpses - and, to his surprise, couldn't find any.

Why is all this happening? Answer: January 30. Don't take my word for it, listen to Walid Jumblatt, big-time Lebanese Druze leader and a man of impeccable anti-American credentials: "I was cynical about Iraq. But when I saw the Iraqi people voting three weeks ago, eight million of them, it was the start of a new Arab world. The Berlin Wall has fallen."

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Ping yall!

[SquirrelKing]

See, now THAT'S a damned good article.
Why can't you sissies in the press corp write like this?

[PGalt]

Thank for the post.

OUTSTANDING! Mark Steyn, you are OUTSTANDING!

BEAUTIFUL MIND...bump!

[scottywr]

Would it be asking too much to add Rummy to that list? And because I'm an Aussie, I think John Howard deserves a mention.

You bet, Rummy and Howard both belong there!

[irv]

Sure, you said Steyn was the best. And all I could say was I told you so...

[Chu Gary]

It just baffles me how Steyn can hit a grand slam home run every day! This guy is unbelievable.

[Chu Gary]

"The delirium over in DU must be approaching epic bedlam proportions."

I think it's actually approaching epic bedpan proportions.

[Chu Gary]

'"Meet the Democrats and their buddies in the mainstream media. Willfully blind is perhaps a better term. " '

I believe that first sentence could be shortened while stealing a movie title to...Meet the Fockers.

[dog breath]

A very brilliant and interesting post. Thank you for it. I must confess I had pretty serious doubts about my country going into Iraq, but as time goes on the many potential benefits have shown me how mistaken I had been. I think perhaps the hand of God is in this and that is not being melodramatic. I think that the troops involved in this will look back on this with great pride.

[lainde]

Thanks Pokey78!

[Capriole]

Thanks for the picture, Pokey. I do think that we ought to institute a new policy, similar to the Ann Coulter thread policy: any Freeper who posts a Steyn article must also post a picture of him. For the benefit of female readers it ought to be a cute picture. This will do until we have something hotter.

[Chu Gary]

"Who, after GWB would you put on the list of 36 Honourable Men?"

Well, for starters, Ollie North, Newt Gingrich, Katherine Harris, Charles Krauthammer and 32 others.

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President George W Bush is the Freedom President. Once again the Republican Party drags the Liberals kicking and screaming like spoiled brats, blindly into the 21st century. George Bush is a visionary that sees the World as it can be, not as it is. He is the eternal optimist as well an eternal soldier. Never before have we had a leader who can visualize the power of people’s hunger for Freedom in the oppressed spirit, smoldering like a glowing ember in a wheatfield. Whether it is in a village in Afghanistan, a town in Iraq or facing a tank in Tiananmen Square the human spirit longs to feel the warm embrace of Lady Liberty.

W has blown the cool breath of Freedom onto the embers of Democracy on Iraqi People who are in their infancy of self rule. Just as a toddler begins crawling and then reaching up to learn to walk before becoming an adult, we are witnessing that child nation take his first step. As our infant begins to walk in a room full of dangers, we can take pride in every step of that journey. There has been falls, cuts, bumps and bruises to get to the first step and there will be pitfalls along the way, but we and especially our Troops, should take great relief in the Freedom and hope for Iraq.

The fire is beginning to spread as the hope and hunger of the human spirit is being ignited. The oppression of the Middle East was not as severe or overt as was seen in Communist Russia or China with the physical presence of The Wall, since Saddamn’s wall was mental. They could come and go as they pleased if they had enough money or were connected, but their oppressors could snatch them off the street to be raped or tortured at any given moment. Now they are free to speak or write as they please and vote for their leaders. These flames are warming hearts and minds while pushing back the deep black darkness.

Over the next couple of years we will see a Government formed and a Leader chosen to lead the Iraqi people out of their darkness. We will see them taking ownership of their Country and their own personal Freedom. As they begin to understand that the oppression is behind them they will be taking their torches to the darkest corners of their Country. These flames will expose the terrorists from their hiding places and bring them to justice. The Wildfire will engulf the terrorist hidden in the brush to expose him as a hindrance to Freedom Worldwide. The average Iraqi as we saw on January 30th does not want to see his child blown up, rather has a heart that hopes for a new sunrise.

We are seeing sparks spreading across the tinderbox of Persia. Of all people, the PLO and Hezbola have seen the light as well as the peoples of Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Lebanon. While these fires begin to burn bright in Beirut we will see the sparks ignite into flames in these Countries as well as Iran and move around the World to the slave fields of China, Cuba and Korea. Once people understand that Freedom can happen in Countries like Russia, Afghanistan and Iraq, they will realize that Dictators are actually Sand Castles standing against an Ocean. They cannot quench the thirst for Freedom with threats or terror any longer.

President Bush has become one of the Great Visionaries of history. Just as the invisible hand of Capitalism is the most efficient form of economics, so too is the invisible hand of Freedom and Democracy. This hand will expose and capture the Terrorists around the World great and small. People will throw off their shackles of fear and follow the model of Afghanistan and Iraq to fan the white hot flames of Liberty. As America and her friends fuel these flames, millions will be freed from their oppression and take back ownership of their lands. As this Wildfire spreads throughout the World, despots cower in fear as they wait for their ultimate demise at the hands of God’s servant leader, the Freedom President George W Bush.

Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighting Troops

[Fred Nerks]

Still counting:

GWB
Cheney
Franks
Steyn
Rummy
Wolfy
Howard
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Seven. Any more, anyone? How about Blair? And keep your eye on the King of Jordan...

[Walkingfeather]

why have I heard of this guy before this week. I read another article by him last week bordering on the brilliant.... Hell it was brilliant.

[Walkingfeather]

Bush is changing lives and history.... Chris Rock could only get channels changed.

[hosepipe]

[ 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. ]

Almost prose...