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Dont ask me what the long-term strategy behind these biennial attacks is supposed to be. But, from oh, say, November, it becomes harder with each passing week for the doom-mongers to argue that the lack of activity is consistent with bin Ladens modus operandi. To be sure, I still read the in-depth reports by experts who say hes alive and well and living on the Northwest Frontier. But, if he doesnt show himself, then inevitably those experts begin to sound like the fellows who claim to know the whereabouts of Lord Lucan or the truth about the Loch Ness Monster. Its all very scientific, Im sure, but sooner or later Lucan and Nessie have to do a bit of work and put in an appearance themselves.
Instead, Osama makes audio cassettes, and he licenses his subordinates to make audio cassettes, and they issue bloodcurdling threats against everyone from the Great Satan to hapless bystanders like Ireland and Canada, and none of those threats comes to pass. Theyre all turban and no jihad. They were at it again the other day: We announce there will be new attacks inside and outside [the US] which would make America forget the attacks of 11 September, said an al-Qaeda spokesman.
Maybe hes right, and by the time you read this Chicago and Atlanta will be ablaze. Or maybe it will be like all the other empty threats. Even in the Hindu Kush at the all-U-can-eat scorpion buffet, you cant dine out on 9/11 for ever. This is a long war but for America, with victories at home, in Afghanistan, in Iraq and elsewhere, its been a pretty good start.
Good writing, that!
1 posted on
09/11/2003 10:03:49 AM PDT by
quidnunc
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To: quidnunc; xm177e2; mercy; Wait4Truth; hole_n_one; GretchenEE; Clinton's a rapist; buffyt; ...
Mark Steyn MEGA PING!
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To: quidnunc
bookmark for later read
3 posted on
09/11/2003 10:08:29 AM PDT by
prairiebreeze
(God rest the souls of the 9-11 victims. We Will Never Forget.)
To: quidnunc
"All turban and no jihad" Classic
To: quidnunc
Excellent, thank you.
5 posted on
09/11/2003 10:11:33 AM PDT by
kimmie7
(Stand up, stand up for Jesus ye soldiers of the Cross! Pray for Terri Schiavo!)
To: quidnunc
Theyre all turban and no jihad. I think I just found my new tagline...for awhile, anyway.
7 posted on
09/11/2003 10:12:00 AM PDT by
HiJinx
(They’re all turban and no jihad.)
To: quidnunc
But the advantage of sour oppositionism is that whatever happens theres always something to sneer at.
This applies to a few Freepers as well.
9 posted on
09/11/2003 10:20:07 AM PDT by
Warren_Piece
(Dont Panic!)
To: quidnunc
Hour by hour, day by day, the jihadists are getting killed and captured. The invasion of Iraq is attracting the deadheads like lambs to the slaughter, has put enormous pressure on Iran, Syria and SA to stop supporting terrorists, and has taken enormous pressure off Israel. SA for the first time is taking effective action against local terrorists, terrorism supporters among the royal family are meeting mysterious deaths, and there is hint that the inciting to violence by the imams will soon be dealt with. Pakistan is quietly aiding in the search for AQ leaders in its tribal regions. And these are only the things we hear about. It will take years for the truth about all the clandestine operations going on to surface.
Yes, indeed, we are winning. In spades.
To: quidnunc
If its a choice between Meacher or the Continentals whove turned down US requests for troop contributions because they want Iraq to go belly up so that Bush gets defeated in 2004 and some wimp Democrat gets elected wholl treat them with the respect they deserve, Ill take the latter. Tears in my eyes on this one, because it's true. But "all turban and no jihad" is destined to become immortal.
To: quidnunc
Steyn is, of course, absolutely correct...yet the sqad fact is that the Bush administration cannot, or perhaps fears, claiming credit for the fact that there has not been ONE single terrorist incident in the USA since 9/11, because, if the next day, a Moslem farted in Times Square, the entire media and the Dem candidates would be accusing W of hubris, and wailing that the administration was funding Homeland Security enough..
15 posted on
09/11/2003 10:28:19 AM PDT by
ken5050
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"...pretext to grab Iraqs oil and Afghanistans, er, rubble"I love this liberal nonsense. My sister wanted to take me to an Afghani restaurant and I asked her why she would want to dine at a place that made high cuisine from......dirt.
18 posted on
09/11/2003 10:32:52 AM PDT by
Grammy
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...the awesome divide between the postmodern sophists and everybody else is the real legacy of 11 September. Let us hope so. And may that "awesome divide" between the self-selected elite chattering classes -- including the "nine dwarves" hoping for President Bush's job in 2004 -- and sane, reasonable human beings grow wider still, to the point where said elite can be clearly recognized displaying itself in the public square, in the full light of day, as the arrogant, irrational, self-loathing, and America-hating irrelevancies they all truly are. Truly, "the Emperor has no clothes"....
And thus, God willing, the innocent lost ones of 9/11 will not have died in vain.
Thanks for the great post, quidnunc. I love Mark Steyn.
24 posted on
09/11/2003 10:52:15 AM PDT by
betty boop
(God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world. -- Paul Dirac)
To: quidnunc
<< Excerpted - click for full article ^ >>
Why?
Are you getting kickbacks for any hits on your link?
[Don't hold your breath, then]
25 posted on
09/11/2003 10:58:38 AM PDT by
Brian Allen
( Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God - Thomas Jefferson)
To: quidnunc
Even in the Hindu Kush at the all-U-can-eat scorpion buffet, you cant dine out on 9/11 for ever.ROTFL!!! That is just PRICELESS!!
32 posted on
09/11/2003 12:19:13 PM PDT by
SuziQ
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Are Bushs approval ratings plummeting? Gallup has him at 59 per cent. In any case, he always takes August off and his numbers always slip as noisy Democrats run around filling the vacuum. Then September arrives, he comes back to work and they rise again. Its now an established seasonal variation.Daschle and paleocons "deeply saddened."
36 posted on
09/11/2003 12:49:10 PM PDT by
Poohbah
(Hee Haw was supposed to be a television show...not the basis of a political movement...)
To: quidnunc
Classic Steyn. As someone said in a different thread, Lileks and Steyn, a great one - two punch.
To: quidnunc
Dang, Steyn is good.
38 posted on
09/11/2003 1:01:26 PM PDT by
colorado tanker
(USA - taking out the world's trash since 1776)
To: quidnunc
Theyre all turban and no jihad. My gosh, is this fellow priceless, or what!!??
41 posted on
09/11/2003 1:23:19 PM PDT by
Gritty
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43 posted on
09/11/2003 1:25:55 PM PDT by
TheDon
(Tick, tock, tick, tock...the sound of the clock ticking down the time until Tom drops out.)
To: quidnunc
The "all turban, no jihad" line is great. Another classic, "hes pushing up daisy-cutters".
47 posted on
09/11/2003 3:39:13 PM PDT by
mikegi
To: quidnunc
Miss Hawley has mistakenly assumed that Saddam thinks as she and Harold Pinter and Jacques Chirac do: that its all about America. When something blows up in Iraq and it can be passed off as a setback for Bush, Miss Hawley has a good gloat. But its not much consolation to Saddam: hes thinking of his gold toilet, and no matter how furiously Miss Hawley spins things hes not going to be sitting on that ever again. Theyve sounded the last flush at the Presidential Palace. Likewise, for Mullah Omar.Saddam sons killed in loo [bathroom]
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$30 Million worth of trash
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Uday Hussein, left, and Qusay Hussein
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They're dead, Jim.
49 posted on
09/11/2003 4:09:35 PM PDT by
MeekOneGOP
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