Satan doesn't wear sweaty socks

The Times (U.K.) ^ | 01/19/2002 | MATTHEW PARRIS

[Hudley]

As for me, the only "stiff upper lip" I want to see is on a dead enemy.

Love it. Excellent post, e-lips.

[Tauzero]

Oh man, I haven't laughed so hard in a long time.

This article made me all warm and fuzzy.

[mikeIII]

Parris seems to be trying hard to mold his America to British sentiments. Britain acted similarly in a unilateral way long after the days of the empire: Suez, Falklands!

If the 9/11 attacks weren't so close to home, we would've probably sought wider consensus.

[Southern Federalist]

We seek to project the message that there are rules to which all nations are subject. America has a simpler message: kill Americans, and you’re dead meat.

Sound to me it's Mr. Parris who needs to go to the loo. What a constipated self-righteous jackass.

This is just the sort of thinking that has taken the British Conservative Party from the Thatcher triumphs to its present political insignificance. Honestly, Blair isn't this bad.

Basically this all boils down to:

(a) Bloody Americans wouldn't subordinate their own interests to help us cling to little bits of the Empire we had already proved in India we had no will to keep.

(b) We may be a second rate power, but at least we're subtle.

I say this with all respect and gratitude for the support the US has gotten from Britain. But this guy represents a kind of conservatism that is basically obsolete, because its only real belief is that "the world should be ruled by superior chaps like me." Its natural allies are in Brussels and with the elite Left generally.

[Kermit]

"He couldn’t even devise a way of detonating his own shoes, short of bending down in his aeroplane seat, with passengers around, and trying to set fire with matches to a foot-sweaty fuse. Why didn’t he go into the loo?"

Reid wanted to be right over the wing and the center fuel tank. It's kinda hard painting Al-Qaeda as buffoons, while slipping on a banana peel yourself.

America is the 800-pound gorilla of the world. It couldn't be alongside the chimpanzees, even if it wanted to. America rolls over in its sleep and certain countries in the world get squished. It's unavoidable.