Mark Steyn: The church dance that snowballed

Macleans ^ | 09/21/06 | Mark Steyn

[Criminal Number 18F]

The Sept. 11th capture of Hekmatyar that Steyn refers to has not been confirmed. It seems to have been an error by the German press agency, DPA.

FYI

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[ClaireSolt]

If you have ever been mauled by one of those horny Muslims, you develop a taste for church dances, anew.

[Common Tator]

Some things sort of stick in my mind. Like why did the Pakistani leader agree to pull out of the area next to the Afghanistan border. The deal he said, was that in return for drawing out of that area of Pakistan, the Tali ban and Al Queada would not interfere with the rest of Pakistan.

What followed next was an increase in the size and quantity of attacks by the Taliban in Afghanistan. That would make sense if the Taliban did not have to retain forces to fight the Pakistani army they could send all their forces to fight in Afghanistan.

But then today President Bush reversed his position on invading that area of Packistan. It seems obvious to me that the US could not attack into Pakistan when there was a good chance we would find ourselves fighting the Pakistani army.

I think it is clear that the Taliban has lost the game. They agreed to the removal of all the Pakistani troops because that would give them enough forces to take out the NATO forces. That has failed and now the USA is going into Pakistan with out fear of confronting the Pakistani Army.

Bin Laden may be a dead duck. It remains to be seen if the little guy from Iran will tolerate the competition from Bin Ladin. I think he won't. He wants the entire spot light.

If that be the case then look for Bin Laden to be captured in the not too distant future.

How would you like to be Lindsay Graham defending bin Laden's civil rights.

[Steve_Seattle]

Qutb

Yes, it has always amused me that the decadent, sinful, America that Qutb saw was pre rock 'n' roll, pre-Elvis, pre-Punk, pre-Rap, pre-Doors, pre-Hip-Hop, pre-Roe-v-Wade, pre-gay-rights, pre-no-fault-divorce. Indeed, it was the allegedly prudish (according to liberals) early-50s, church-going America that shocked him.

[SuziQ]

Vey interesting!

[FlyVet]

How would you like to be Lindsay Graham defending bin Laden's civil rights.

Ouch.

[thulldud]

One thing of interest is that while the bookstores in my area are piled up deep with books that say we failed in iraq,

Hope it's because they aren't selling.

Libs know the party line instinctively. They don't need to read actual books for that.

[ModelBreaker]

Reminds me of one of my favorite lines in music--similar setting too:

"And my dear, we're still goodbying."

[neocon1984]

That's one of our favorites when the Christmas season (Oops!, I mean Winter Festival Season) CDs come out. It exudes a sort of relaxed, 1940's jazzy feel to it that undoubtedly arouses people to commit all kinds of awful acts. My wife and I actually enjoy the song even more with a glass or two of wine. How insensitive of us!

[7thson]

If even a pinch of this is true, these people are truly insane! But I state the obvious. They need to be put down like the rabid dogs they are.

[Toadman]

bookmark

[Ruth A.]

There's a sad inevitability when al-Qaeda's head honchos are ready to give up on 9/11 because they haven't any Muslim Westerners who can pull it off, and just at that moment a Hamburg engineering student called Mohammed Atta shows up.

Reason enough for me to stop all student Visa from Muslim countries.

Steyn's breadth of reading material impresses me as much as his eloquence.

[knighthawk]

Ping

[Roscoe Karns]

I'm reading the book now. It's great. The part at the beginng about Sayyid Qutb reminded me of the Chaos Theory and the flapping butterfly wings. An evil Western woman bats her eyelashes at Qutb and 50+ years later the WTC comes crashing down.

I'm only 1/4 the way through so far but I would highly recommend reading The Looming Tower.

[Roscoe Karns]

beginng= beginning

[Fred Nerks]

Mark Stein book review, don't miss it,

[Dog Gone]

If Steyn likes the book, so will I.

[sunshine state]

I'm pleased to report that my library system has 8 copies of the book, all 8 copies are checked out and 31 people are on the waiting list. Guess I'll be #32.

[stripes1776]

Marking.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks.

"Zbigniew Brzezinski, facing the Congressional oversight of post-Watergate Washington, chose instead to run the operation through third parties and plumped for the Saudis' Prince Turki and the ISI."

Oh, yes, I remember those blistering questions from the Congressional committee which investigated this. ;')