Mark Steyn: The axis of evenhandedness

Western Standard (Canada) ^ | 08/22/06 | Mark Steyn

[Donna Lee Nardo]

"Israel is not yet in the suicide business. Faced with an existential threat, it has determined to resist it. Yet even then it feels obliged to fight in the postmodern western manner, with one hand tied behind its back. It accepts, implicitly, that it's not allowed to crush and exterminate Hezbollah, only to degrade its capability to one degree or another. And then Hezbollah will catch its breath, and wait to be resupplied by Iran via Syria. This isn't even Westphalian. Linda McQuaig, the EU, the UN and many others demand, in effect, that Hezbollah, a terrorist "non-state actor," be recognized as a formal, permanent part of the landscape."

This paragraph particularly steams me. I hate that Israel is always strong-armed into retreat.

Overall, Steyn's entire piece is absolutely the best I have read all week. So much truth in it. Truth so simple and clear that it is startling.

[krb]

There's a hoary old joke

Isn't that redundant?

[Fair Go]

Great article and a must read.

[alwaysconservative]

I loooove Steyn; thanks for the ping!

[irv]

Israel is not yet in the suicide business

ahhh, but France, England, Canada, Holland and many more are. Which is one of his frequent points, of course.

[Rockingham]

For us Steyniacs, there is a special treat on offer tomorrow: Steyn fills in for Limbaugh.