Mark Steyn: The Arabs' Berlin Wall has crumbled

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

[My2Cents]

Lincoln ensured that the ideals of the founders would extend to all Americans. GW Bush is ensuring that the ideals of the founders be given a chance to extend to all people, everywhere. Washington-Lincoln-Bush...I believe these will be viewed as our nation's greatest presidents.

[Huck]

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

Indeed. Is the Spirit of '76 working on them? Time will tell, but it sure looks like it at the moment.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Chris Rock

Who is he?

[aculeus]

Hosni Mubarak has no desire to take part in campaign debates with Hosno Name-Recognition

would stick to their traditional line that Wahhabi women have no place in a voting booth; instead, they have to dress like a voting booth - a big black impenetrable curtain with a little slot to drop your ballot through...

Wisdom served with firecracker wit.

He makes the Times oped look like high school journalists trying their best to perform as Stepford lefties.

[hattend]

Steyn rocks BUMP!

[prairiebreeze]

More fine from Steyn. It's hard not to gloat isn't it..

:^P

[Huck]

Washington-Lincoln-FDR-Reagan-Bush

I believe that's how it'll shake out. I am no big fan of FDR, but I still don't see how you take him off. Hell, he was a huge influence on Reagan. Go figure. If all this stuff in the middle east shakes out like it looks like it might, then Bush will be added to that list. There, I said it.

[chiller]

So far, this is soooo far beyond expectations, I'm numb. Imagine years ago when W surely asked his cabinet to assess the best case scenario that could be expected from replacing Saddam.....and worst case. Somebody would have blue-skyed; "we might start a revolution of democracies in the Middle East....but naaahh.

This could indeed be bigger than the Berlin wall. And who's responsible" GWB. I tell ya' there'll be a 'draft another Bush' movement after two more years of this. Get ready Jeb.

[prairiebreeze]

There are many great Steyn quotes in this one. Here's one of my favorites:

The EU's political establishment doesn't trust its own people, so why would they trust anybody else's? Bush trusts the American people, and he's happy to extend the same courtesy to the Iraqi people, the Syrian people, the Iranian people, etc.

Indeed.

[ride the whirlwind]

And some even question whether being a delivery system for plastic explosives is really all life has to offer, even on the West Bank.

Progress is being made one heart and one soul at a time, as GWB likes to say.

[Cultural Jihad]

The EU's political establishment doesn't trust its own people, so why would they trust anybody else's? Bush trusts the American people, and he's happy to extend the same courtesy to the Iraqi people, the Syrian people, the Iranian people, etc.

Apparently Mark Steyn didn't get the memo from the anti-immigrants of the American al Fatah about what a traitor George W. Bush is, and how he's being blackmailed by Vicente Fox, and how he doesn't care about Americans, ad nauseum.

[Nate1984]

Unfortunately people often hear only what they want to hear. The people over at DU are actually against Lebanese democracy because it reflects positively on Bush policy. They'd rather have the Lebanese suffer under Syrian occupation than have to admit that something in the middle east went right.

[Dog Gone]

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.

The power of Steyn is that he's brutally honest.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

ping!

[Peach]

Very good. Steyn must drive the left crazy when he writes this brilliantly. LOL

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Oh the cynics will be back howling the first time one of these governments takes a step back. And they will. But if it sticks even with half of them... WOW! What a thing.

Have you ever noticed that dictator ships come in clumps? That is because they depend on each other. Divide the clump and watch them fall.

I hoped. But I did not really dare believe. But now that the idea of liberty and of a government of, for and by the people is taking root in some very strange soil, I have to wonder if maybe we didn't understand the power of this little idea.

Perhaps, just perhaps, it is for everyone.

[Political Junkie Too]

Why is all this happening? Answer: January 30.

Now, now, Mark. We wouldn't want to "overhype" this, don't you know?

-PJ

[A Navy Vet]

I have often wondered, after 9/11, who in the White House first mentioned the WOT would eventually be won my destabilizing the ME, and spreading freedom. Afganistan was an obvious target, but who first realized that the Arab/Muslim dictatorships were vulnerable to a democracy dominoe effect.

[chiller]

...you reminded me of NYT's Friedman, who has changed his tune. He sounded like a Pubbie communications director on Meet the Press. Kudos to him, btw, for a modicum of flexibilty, unlike the Dems he trashed.