MARK STEYN: Americans are tougher about these things now

The Sunday Telegraph ^ | February 2, 2003 | Mark Steyn

[JohnHuang2]

Thanks, Pokey, for the ping, and thank you, MadIvan, for posting

[JohnHuang2]

Mark Steyn Mega ping...

[Cincinatus' Wife]

That's the American way.

Bump!

[JohnHuang2]

Hi, Cincy. Very sad weekend. Hope all is well with you and yours, friend.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Thank you John. Our wishes for you and yours.

This will will not be the end. It is yet a new challenge and test for U.S. eminence in space.

[JohnHuang2]

Thank you, friend -- and I wholeheartedly agree.

[albertabound]

Please, inquiring Canadian minds want to know.

[albertabound]

Thanks for removing the pox and since Steyn is also a Canuck, he will appreciate it too.You can leave the Pox on Ontario and the CBC if you wish.

[Snowyman]

I'd like to know why is Steyn watching the CBC ? Poor place to do research. Or is it?

[1john2 3and4]

The unofficial response in the streets of Judea and Samaria and Gaza was effusive joy.

i havent finished reading the whole thread yet, anybody got video?

[vannrox]

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Hey you DEMOCRATS,
Take NOTE of THIS...


"...What happened happened most likely because the Columbia was just so damn old and rusty.

If anything, it symbolises not American "arrogance", but what happens when the great youthful innovative spirit of the country is allowed to atrophy: the entire space programme is now dependent on a transit system a generation old.

If Mr Bush really wanted to emphasise the gulf between his country and both the Islamist cave dwellers and "Old Europe", he would announce a major renewal of the space project.

A frontier is part of the US character..."


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[wayoverontheright]

Good insights from a person who can be a brilliant political satirist, but who is striking some non-humorous, but thoughtful chords here.

How about this one?

Now, instead of steely determination, the television screens will be filled with funerals, elegies, interviews with neighbours, mounds of flowers and teddy bears: it enables the networks to slip in to their preferred mode, of America as victim, weak and vulnerable, which is why ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN were so good on September 11 and, for the most part, so bad in the months since.

The networks had better not stay in that mode very long, because "steely determination" will return quickly.

[reg45]

The CBC is as socialist and anti-american as is possible to be.

Not unlike NPR.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the heads up!

[wardaddy]

Steyn is pretty prolific.

[blackie]

Mark Steyn ... Bump!

[hang 'em]

Prediction of Hilary's response:

"What did Bush know and when did he know it?"

[PoisedWoman]

Bush declared a week of flags being lowered. This is bound to knock the wind out of the sails for a bit

Or not. We really don't like to lose anything under any circumstances. Perhaps loss of astronauts will translate into greater, not lesser, will to win. Let's see whether GWB works through enough of his own (valid) emotion over the weekend to come back into the ring in good and determined form Monday.