Posted on 02/14/2011 10:04:20 PM PST by JLS
Dear Mark,
I find it odd that you'd see a secular protest of millions of Egyptians against a tyrant to be "dark." This is what America stands for -- our ideals are winning. The Islamic extremists have not caught on with the Arab youth.
Moreover, these changes are inevitable. Half the Arab population is below 24. They see on al jazeera how corrupt their governments are, and how life is in the West. They are becoming modern. They will not submit to dictators. We can either stand for our principles and embrace change, or we can cling to tyrants and make it more likely that a deep anti-western bias will define the change that the youth will inevitably bring to the Arab world. It won't be easy, but it should be welcomed.
Sincerely,
Scott Erb
Okay, I'll bite - if only because Mr Erb's sentiment is near universal, at least in the media. Let's go through this bit by bit. For a start, I have never "clung to tyrants". A big part of the argument of America Alone is against the deluded "stability" fetishists of "American foreign policy’s faith in unreal realpolitik – the system embodied in the cynical line that so-and-so may be a sonofabitch but he’s our sonofabitch":
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
Mark Steyn ping.
Freepmail me if you want on or off the Mark Steyn ping list.
Demography is destiny... young Arabs want to flee for the West because they have no hope at home.
Steyn’s great.
Who would have thought the following events would be desirable for America, Israel and the Egyptian people:
1. Military Coup.
2. Martial Law.
3. Suspension of the constitution.
4. Dissolution of the Legislature.
5. Rule by Military Junta.
Tick, Tick, ... Tick
You can’t read Steyn without a smile for the satiric takes on life and politics—but then you realize that his prose is some of the most incisive political analysis in the world today.
I’d recommend that you continue with the link “next” at the bottom of this essay and read the rather long response he makes to some critics who criticize him for ‘hate speech’
The response is all about the actual writing of Shi’a ayatollah Khomeini and his views on ‘sheep shagging’ and marital sex practices with nine year old girls.
It is an eye-opening look through the looking glass into ‘modern’ Islamic thought.
Steyn raps out another hit.
“Demography is destiny... young Arabs want to flee for the West because they have no hope at home.”
True, but then they want to turn the west into a sharia compliant version of the place they left.
Excellent read...long but thoroughly enjoyable.
PS: Devout muslims are foul
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True, but then they want to turn the west into a sharia compliant version of the place they left.
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Just like so-called liberals do when they destroy the economies of their home states and move to healthy states and then try to bring into power their failed “liberal” policies.
Oh, to be blessed with just the talent that Mark Steyn has in his little pinkie.
Steyn Pulls No Punches PING.
I bet he made them cry.
That was hilarious. Would that I had half the ability as a wordsmith as Mr. Steyn.
If I were celebrated toilet photographer Warren Kinsella or leading Canadian Internet Nazi Lucy Warman, I’d sue. But I’m not. Nor, despite a flying visit to the Falklands and a couple of wet weekends in Wales, have I ever been attracted to sheep-shagging. But I imagine it feels a bit like dealing with Messrs Miller, Murphy and the Law R Cool kids: No matter how often you roger them senseless, they keep on bleating.
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