[Pokey78]

[goldstategop]

Mark Steyn bump! Let's tell the French to go where they can jolly bugger off.

[dennisw]

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[Ichneumon]

As always, it looks as if Steyn has nailed it.

[fporretto]

If only all political pundits had Mark Steyn's clarity of vision and dizzying fluency! How can it be that this invaluable voice hasn't yet been syndicated all over America?

Freedom, Wealth, and Peace,
Francis W. Porretto
Visit The Palace Of Reason:
http://palaceofreason.com

[ex-Texan]

A loud standing ovation out here in Oregon !!! ... Bravo Mark Steyn ! .... Bravo !

Mr. Steyn really gets it!

[chilepepper]

IMHO this is one of Steyn's most serious pieces, and most informative. Hat off to him...

[Core_Conservative]

Mark,

This was an awesome display of mental ability. My hat is off to you for this amazing linkage. I have never thought that it could be this intricate, however, you have cleared my brain to accept such intrigue. Thank you for this eye opening article.

[I still care]

Oh, come on. I know I'm showing my ignorance here, but does Belgium REALLY have a leader called Manekin Pis?

[tictoc]

Fantastic!

In unrelated news, a FreeRepublic member named MadIvan was seen dashing into the Channel at Dover. Crawling through icy seas, he appears to be headed toward Calais at a record-setting pace.

Mr. Ivan was said to be holding a SAS standard issue combat knife clamped between his teeth. A taxidermists' manual and a tourist guide to the presidential Elysée Palace in Paris were reported missing from his local library branch.

[Brian Allen]

<< ..... the only real split is between Chirac, Schroeder and Belgium's Manekin Pis, on the one hand, and everybody else. America has never been isolated. >>

The only "isolation" America has ever practiced -- as defined and/or noted by the world's liberals -- has been to occasionally adhere to Constitutional restraints upon the uses of Our Nation's Blood and Treasure -- and to, rarely, act in the interests of individual Americans without first pretending to need EURO-peon counsel.

The old EURO-peons, spoilt by eight years of the craven prostrations of dead and decadent EURO-peonist KKKli'tonista co-serial-rapists and other gargoyles [Can't you just picture them; Shilala, Hitlery, Herr Reich, (The Fourth?) Hubbell and his daughter, et al -- and state's mouth-frothing Rubin and grotesque Notat Allbright all lined up waiting for a Monacaesque slobber at Manekin Pis] -- consider anything even slightly less amoral than that squalid parade to fit their new definition of "American isolationism."

&*&^%$#@ them!!

[moneyrunner]

Like Rush Limbaugh, Steyn validates my beliefs. Love him.

[BunnySlippers]

Is there a Steyn ping list? Is so, I'd love ot be added. :)
BUMP!

[ez]

The rift is easily explained. Iraq is a SOCIALIST country, led by the Arab Baathist Socialist Party. This socialism was imported from Michel Aflaq and France, who assisted Saddam in using his Leninst tactics to achieve power.

France and Germany are also trending socialist, and so this is not about anything but the old Cold War rift...capitalism v. socialism.

The danger of Saddam is that he is the Lynchpin which unites the Socialists (France, Germany, Russia, China, North Korea) with the Islamofascists (Al Queda, Wahhabists). THAT is why he must be taken down and the link between the nuclear armed socialists and arabs be severed.

[XJarhead]

Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. It's not France being different "just to be different". It's France being "different" to wreck the Atlantic alliance, sever European ties to America, and remake the Continent in its image. It's the one explanation that fits the evidence best.

I love Steyn, but that may be his best piece of analysis yet.

[eureka!]

Ahhh, Steyn. Bump...

[Remole]

We're not worthy!

We're not worthy!

[facedown]

...Monsieur Evil et Mini-Moi.

[Gritty]

Steyn is more than merely brilliant in his writing; he is uncannily perceptive in his analysis!

[Tares]

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