[ChadGore]

and the walls came down

[Pokey78]

Steyn ping!

[Andy from Beaverton]

The Arabs did take over when the Nazis left.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[gridlock]

Allow me to be the first to say: IT'S ALL GEORGE W. BUSH'S FAULT!

[SJackson]

If you'd like to be on this middle east/political ping list, please FR mail me.

[TheOtherOne]

Not his best piece, but makes me smile nonetheless.

[nutmeg]

read later

[Tribune7]

ping

[King Prout]

I rather enjoy telling people "I told you so"

that the news is GOOD is icing.

[QQQQQ]

This is the most articulate and accurate presentation of the recent events I have seen so far, anywhere.

Excellent article by Mark Steyn.

I wish the Bush administration would make an effort to explain this, just this way to Americans and people all over the world, to make sure they get the correlation.