Priceless!
Does Steyn print his TV appearances anywhere? I'd love to see him interviewed on C-Span.
Mark nails it again!
Great, great, great.
Thanks for posting this!
Thanks. Steyn-O-Mite as usual !
Wow, is that a good one.
Thanks, Pokey! Classic Mark Steyn! Great article.Mark Steyn: The right side of history
Excerpt:
The other day in the Guardian Martin Kettle wrote: The war was a reckless, provocative, dangerous, lawless piece of unilateral arrogance. But it has nevertheless brought forth a desirable outcome which would not have been achieved at all, or so quickly, by the means that the critics advocated, right though they were in most respects.
Very big of you, pal. And I guess thats as close to a mea culpa as were going to get: even though Bush got everything wrong, it turned out right. Funny how that happens, isnt it? In a few years time, theyll have it down pat just like they have with Eastern Europe. Oh, the Soviet bloc [the Middle East thugocracies] was bound to collapse anyway. Nothing to do with that simpleton Ronnie Raygun [Chimpy Bushitler]. In fact, all Raygun [Chimpy] did was delay the inevitable with his ridiculous arms build-up [illegal unprovoked Halliburton oil-grab], as many of us argued at the time: see my 1984 column Yuri Andropov, The Young, Smart, Sexy New Face Of Soviet Communism [see the April 2004 Spectator column Things Were Better Under Saddam: The coalition has destroyed Baathism, says Rod Liddle, and with it all hopes of the emergence of secular democracy and yes, that really ran in these pages, on 17 April, not 1 April.]
By the way, whens the next Not In Our Name rally? How about this Saturday? Millions of Nionists can flood into Trafalgar Square to proclaim to folks in Iraq and Lebanon and Egypt and Jordan and Saudi Arabia and the Palestinian Authority that all the changes under way in the region are most certainly Not In Their Name. Among the celebrity Nionists, Harold Pinter should be available to denounce Blair as a war criminal and a hired Christian thug one mo time. For as the Guardian reported this week, the great man announced that he has decided to abandon his career as a playwright in order to concentrate exclusively on politics.
Thats great news, isnt it? One of the reasons Mr Pinter was right only in most respects (as Martin Kettle would put it) is that he had to fit being right about everything in between composing 11-minute plays. Now he can devote his energies to it full time Ive no doubt hell be right in all respects.
As for me, I got a lot of things wrong these last three years, but, looking at events in the Middle East this last week, Im glad that, unlike the Nionist Entity, I got the big stuff right. On 8 May 2003, a couple of weeks after the fall of Saddam, I wrote in the Speccies then sister paper the Jerusalem Post:
You dont invade Iraq in order to invade everywhere else, you invade Iraq so you dont have to invade everywhere else.
And so its turned out.
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Bookmarked for later read.
Oh, thank you Pokey for another gem of a Steyn article to be savored again and again!
Bump for later. Thanks Pokey!
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Still love Steyn and I love the pic!
Another great read....and another thank you for the ping!