There are no words to describe my utter contempt for Kofi Annan and the UN! Can we start a taxpayer protest - no taxes paid as long as we support the UN?
Holy crap!
Arab self-rule was an interregnum from the beginning. Al Qaeda's bleary adherents long for a slice of time between the Arab conquest of the Middle East and the Seljuk Turks' taking it away from them five centuries later. Somehow the invincible power of Allah fell then, as it is falling now, to the ones with the bigger divisions.
The principal difference between then and now is that technology has given more destructive power into fewer hands, so much so that a core of fanatics wields a power proportionate to their threats, not their actual ability. This is a scenario custom-made for a despot. Of course in a straight fight the U.S. would wipe Iran from the map, and so would Russia and China. There will be no straight fight. There will be blackmail and intimidation, terror and propaganda, and one by one the weak will surrender because fighting under the conditions presented to them is futile. And many, especially but not exclusively on the left, will applaud the grand pageant until they are no longer spectators and no longer capable of becoming fighters.
That's what this is all about. Anyone dismissing the War On Terror as flailing against an abstraction is comforting him- or herself. Terror states and proxy armies aren't abstractions at all.
<< .... when bombs went off in Bali killing hundreds of tourists plus local waiters and barmen, Bruce Haigh, an Aussie former "diplomat" in Indonesia, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, had no doubt where to put the blame. As he told Australia's Nine Network: "The root cause of this issue has been America's backing of Israel on Palestine."
Suppose this were true -- that terrorists blew up Oz honeymooners and Scandinavian stoners in Balinese nightclubs because of "the Palestinian question." Doesn't this suggest that these people are, at a certain level, nuts? After all, there are plenty of IRA sympathizers around the world (try making the Ulster Unionist case in a Boston bar) and yet they never thought to protest British rule in Northern Ireland by blowing up, say, German tourists in Thailand. >>
Even in Aussie the only folks taking the gummint dole are those too damned stupid to be skule teechahs and jernolists. But, no doubt about it, islamanazis are that damned (and even slightly more so than the bloody "ira" and its potato-brained supporters) brutishly mentally deranged.
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Steyn hits a home run with this article.
Here's another great one by Victor Davis Hanson.http://www.victorhanson.com/articles/hanson072106.html
Bump for later savoring.
So, who do you suppose is responsible for publishing the same Steyn article under multiple titles?
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I disagree. I still don't think they get it.
Which provides a truly unfortunate and unshakeable mental image of precisely how Bashir Assad got that long neck of his....