[daviddennis]

Another brilliant work from the master!

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[daviddennis]

Time to ping the Steyn list!

Also, ping 'em on this, one you seem to have missed!

Many thanks for maintaining the list!

D

[Viet Vet in Augusta GA]

Please add me to Steyn ping list. Thank you

[Physicist]

If the best way to solve problems is not to have enemies, then the best way not to have enemies is to get rid of them.

BOO-Yah! There's a comeback.

[sheik yerbouty]

The problem in Argentina at that time was that it was rum by Italians, who spoke Spanish, who tried to act German, and thought Falkland was Poland!

[Dog Gone]

Very timely and appropriate. Steyn is good.

[orbital]

It's a well known fact that the Falklands were named after the lead-actor in the series 'Columbo' (sorry...)

[Allan]

Bump

[xp38]

When Mark Steyn has his game on like he does in this one he is almost untouchable.

[knighthawk]

Ping

[Stultis]

Another half dozen priceless lines ("peanut peacenik" LOL!) and an elegant idea forcefully expressed. Thank you, Mark!

[EternalVigilance]

Ignore the leftist media and the State Dept. panty-waist PING!

[Steel Wolf]

Dictators don't behave rationally. Indeed, one reason they become dictators is precisely to escape the tiresome constraints of rationality.

Now THIS is a good line. Every time I hear someone say 'It makes no sense for North Korea to do this, or Iraq to do that', I think of this exact thing. These are not rational people we are dealing with. Don't expect your enemies to think like you do.

[xJones]

For its part, Argentina calculated that the longer the situation went on without being reversed the less likely it was that it would ever be reversed. World opinion gets used to things very quickly -- the Argies have the Falklands, North Korea has nukes -- and such will to rollback as there is dissipates quickly.

In the war on terror, I fear the clock has stopped.

The longer the build-up takes, the longer the *peace* protestors have time to build protests, Saddam to try and get his bio & chem weapons ready, and the weak-kneed to stop supporting the war on Saddam.

[Gritty]

BTTT

[Consort]

British Joint Services Flag
in the Falklands

[Jonathon Spectre]

America had been humbled in Vietnam and humiliated in Iran, where the smiling eunuch Carter had allowed a superpower to be turned into a laughingstock, with cocky mullahs poking the corpses of U.S. servicemen on TV.

If you guys are not already on the Steyn ping list you should be. This is one of the best columns I've read in a long time, with a great ending. Be sure to check it out.

[Republic of Texas]

" Twenty years ago, the realpolitik crowd thought a democratic South America was a fantasy and that we had to cosy up to the strutting little El Presidentes-for-Life. Today, the same stability junkies tell us we have to do the same with Boy Assad and Co. They're wrong again. They always are. "

Steyn nails it again.

[Zebra]

Outstanding piece!