A bombing pause -- for 12 months? (by Mark Steyn)

National Post Online ^ | November 22, 2002 | Mark Steyn

[Cobra64]

These people bombs, gas, and otherwise kill their own and Jews during Ramadan. Every time I hear the word, it's like listening to Stainman opening his mouth.

[Notforprophet]

Steyn bump!

[Gritty]

"Peace" during Ramadan is only supposed to extend to the themselves except when they feel like it.

I don't recall any World Muslim call for "peace" during Christmas or Easter this past year, and those were only two days, not an entire month!

The sooner we stop fighting this "war" in a PC fashion, the sooner we will start winning it and not just using it as an excuse for yet another feckless and deadly Diversity Campaign!

[DannyTN]

If they want to abstain from violence on all religious holidays not just Muslim but also Christian, Jewish and Hindu. Including not firing at our planes in the no-fly zone, I'm sure that we would be more than happy to do the same. And since they have the bigger history of attacking others on religious holidays they should abstain first.

But if they want to continue in their ways, then I hope they get a blast out of Ramadan.

[fporretto]

Yet another Steyn slash straight across the jugular. The man literally never misses his mark.

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[Pokey78]

Thanks NFP!

[Airborne Longhorn]

Thanks, Pokey-ol'-pal!

"Ramadan-a-ding-dong": Line-o'-the'Day!!!

[Lyford]

Steyn bump

[dead]

The longer this already too long period of phony war continues, the more likely it is that even these stalwarts will decay and Canadianize.

I live in New Jersey. We canadianized about twenty years ago.

[Billthedrill]

We have to change the hearts and minds of millions of Muslims, too many of whom are at best indifferent to great evil.

Hey, we have a system for that - worked in 'Nam. "Give me your hearts and minds or we'll burn your %#$@ing huts down!"

[swarthyguy]

Great column. Somehow i don't think the WH gets to read these.

But, a nit, this is the statement that i disagree with -

>>As things stand, there are only three countries that are serious about the "war on terror": America, Britain and Australia.

I think he needs to add Israel, Russia and India even the Phillipines, and hopefully, Turkey.

[Sir Gawain]

and President Bush's resoluteness doesn't extend to his Secretary of State or even, during Ramadan, to himself.

Uh oh, some folks on your ping list won't like that one. Steyn has just become a Bush basher! lol

[LisaFab]

Thanks Poke - Steyn bump.

[gcruse]

Canada's more "moderate" approach is that as long
as they kill just a few Canadians -- say, hold it under
three figures annually -- we can, so to speak, live with them.

Fair enough, but it's not just Canada.  How many people
does OJ Simpson have to kill before it is murder?
More than two.  Or how many Branch Davidians
does the Justice Department have to kill before it
is mass murder?

[wishuponastarr]

This guy gets a bump who doesn't even know "it's not just him" !?! Ramadan is a week earlier every year and therefore is celebrated in every season during the course of a lifetime.

[Dog Gone]

Steyn is impatient, but he's simply wrong. Bush is not stopping for Ramadan. We're not in position yet.

[Pokey78]

Sometimes Steyn can't help himself.

He predicted that we would have already liberated Iraq by Labor day; which was crazy if only because of the heat. But when LDay rolled around and no Saddam scalp, he was pissed.

He didn't like the way Bush was running the elections, and he said so. But a week of so ago, he did a mea culpa.

There was the Sorry, Mr President, you've lost a fan column about the steel tariffs. Hey, I disagree about the tariffs, but I don't go off the deep end about it like Steyn did.

Steyn is the best at what he does, IMO. But after reading every column he has written in the past 3 or so years, I've come to this comclusion: Mark Steyn is very short tempered. He wants everything done now.

As we all know, W is very patient. He will let things play out in their natural course. And Steyn has a hard problem comprehending that.

[Fiddlstix]

Bump

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

>>As things stand, there are only three countries that are serious about the "war on terror": America, Britain and Australia.

I think he needs to add Israel, Russia and India even the Phillipines, and hopefully, Turkey.

How many of the countries you listed are truly serious about a global war on terror? It seems that they're really (justifiably) interested in the bad guys in their own back yards. They talk the rhetoric of global war, but IMO that's for American consumption (so we won't get in the way of them dealing with their 'local' problems).