[Pokey78]

Steyn ping!

[Tax-chick]

It's getting so depressing to read Steyn's articles, because nobody with the power to do anything right ever does.

[randog]

Bump to finish later.

[RobFromGa]

Getting things done requires ships and transport planes and the like, and most Western countries lack the will to maintain armed forces capable of long-range projection. So, when disaster strikes, they can mail a cheque and hold a press conference and form a post-modern ‘Task Force’ which doesn’t have any forces and doesn’t perform any tasks. In extreme circumstances, they can stage an all-star pop concert.

Brilliant tearing down of liberal do-gooders.

[Conservatrix]

I am SO in love with you Mark Steyn. Please send your brain over for the weekend.

[subterfuge]

"The G8 summiteers will get a taste of this next month when they fly in to Gleneagles to get berated over Africa by elderly Caucasian pop stars. "

Haaa! So on-the-money.

[Rummyfan]

Bruce wanes, visibly, under her withering riposte. I wouldn’t claim this film has anything as coherent as a philosophy, but they thought enough of that line to reprise it late in the action. ‘It’s what you do that defines you,’ Batman whispers to Rachel before diving off a rooftop to go whump the bad guys.

Remninds me of that old triplet:

To be is to do ... Sartre

To do is to be ... Nietzsche

Do Be Do Be Do ... Sinatra

Thanks Pokey!

[Rummyfan]

According to my favourite foreign minister these days, Australia’s Alexander Downer, ‘Iraq was a clear example about how outcomes are more important than blind faith in the principles of non-intervention, sovereignty and multilateralism.... Increasingly multilateralism is a synonym for an ineffective and unfocused policy involving internationalism of the lowest common denominator. Multilateral institutions need to become more results-oriented.’

God Bless the Aussies!

On a side note, how does Mark Steyn do it? This is the fourth piece I have read by him this week, each of them excellent. Is there really a Mark Steyn, or is there a bullpen of writers working full-time putting out this brilliance?

[PogySailor]

The passionate hostility of Miss Short and co to action — to getting things done — is remarkable, but understandable. Getting things done requires ships and transport planes and the like, and most Western countries lack the will to maintain armed forces capable of long-range projection. So, when disaster strikes, they can mail a cheque and hold a press conference and form a post-modern ‘Task Force’ which doesn’t have any forces and doesn’t perform any tasks. In extreme circumstances, they can stage an all-star pop concert. And, because this is all most of the Western world is now capable of, ‘taking action’ means little more than taking the approved forms of inaction.

Posers. The internation elite at its finest.

[Gritty]

BTTT

[Mr Ducklips]

I am convinced that Steyn and Thomas Sowell are the two smartest people in the whole wide world.

[concrete is my business]

All the fuss about Sir Bob Geldof and his live aid concert cracks me up.

Sir Bob is so goofy and I don't think he ever could sing .

This week he told Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin to stay home from the G8 meeting because Canada has not met its commitments. Later, outside the Commons, Finance Minister Ralph Goodale said British Prime Minister Tony Blair issued the invitation to the G8, not Geldof.

Why does ANYONE respond to Sir Bob, let alone Canadas Finance Minister? I do not get it.

Steyn hits it right on the mark with this column, again.

Also, is Batman still "The Caped Crusader" in the movies or has Hollywood red penciled that?

[Stultis]

Steyn seems a little harsh in his criticism of lack of progress in Bosnia. After all it only took eight years to decide what shade of blue should be used on their flag. (Last I knew they were still working on the crest.)

[LibertarianLiz]

taking action’ means little more than taking the approved forms of inaction.

Perfect!

[GretchenM]

‘This initiative from America to set up four countries claiming to co-ordinate sounds like yet another attempt to undermine the UN,’ [Clare Short] told the BBC.

Sounds to me like she got that just about right.

As Drudge says,

Developing ...

[GretchenM]

Thought you might enjoy this excerpt:

Mr Bush will be polite at Gleneagles, but it’s no coincidence that his closest relationship is with a man he hardly ever meets in person, and never at the big talking-shops — John Howard of Australia, who doesn’t get to go to the G8 or Nato or the EU and yet works more effectively with America than Canada or any of the so-called ‘major European allies’ like France and Germany. Summits are, so to speak, one huge bluff.

According to my favourite foreign minister these days, Australia’s Alexander Downer, ‘Iraq was a clear example about how outcomes are more important than blind faith in the principles of non-intervention, sovereignty and multilateralism.... Increasingly multilateralism is a synonym for an ineffective and unfocused policy involving internationalism of the lowest common denominator. Multilateral institutions need to become more results-oriented.’

... It’s what we do that defines us.

[hattend]

STEYN BTTT

[McGavin999]

Mark Steyn for President of the World!

[goldstategop]

A riposte to Mark Steyn in one line: "What conservatives do defines them just as what liberals feel defines them." That is the difference in outlook between the two philosophies.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[knighthawk]

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