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Mark Steyn: America is winning
The Spectator (U.K.) ^
| 03/08/03
| Mark Steyn
Posted on 03/06/2003 9:00:54 AM PST by Pokey78
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To: JohnHuang2
Mark Steyn does it again ... Perfectly!!
Let's Roll!
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posted on
03/06/2003 12:15:03 PM PST
by
blackie
To: JohnHuang2
Thank you so much for the heads up!
To: PLOM...NOT!
Farrell's last show 'Providence" was cancelled a couple of months ago.
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posted on
03/06/2003 12:54:06 PM PST
by
Leto
To: Pokey78
BUMP! Incisive as always!
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posted on
03/06/2003 12:59:26 PM PST
by
dead
To: Pokey78
...the obsession with Iraq is draining resources from the war on terror. That is the threat that should be being pursued, he huffed.
Its good to know that the anti-war arguments are now so unreal theyre impervious to any actual developments back in what we call the real world.
Bump for another one outta-the-ballpark-Steyn.
To: Pokey78
ROFL !
1) Al-Qaeda: If the war on terror is, as the has-been senators contend, almost forgotten, its because al-Qaeda have been unable to pull off any attacks on Western soil in a year and a half. Thats a longer period of calm than Britain managed in its three-decade struggle against the IRA. As we know from the ricin plotters, that low body-count is not for lack of effort on the Islamonutters part. But theyve been able to hit Westerners only in less rigorously policed jurisdictions like Tunisia and Bali, and now the Philippines. So, in any objective sense, Americas war on terror is not being seriously neglected but rather impressively prosecuted.
The best evidence for this is Khalid Sheikh Mohammed himself. KSM is known in al-Qaeda circles as The Brain, and his picture on the FBI Most Wanted list shows a cold but dapper fellow with a trim beard like the Westernised Arab academics who play the talkshow circuit or, indeed, an assistant choreographer on a Broadway revival. By contrast, the fellow seized in Rawalpindi is a wreck haggard, bleary, unshaven, a loser whos run out of everything except back hair. Asked to account for the stark difference in appearance, several experts pointed out that hes a master of disguise. In that case, the master of disguise is doing a great job of convincingly passing himself off as a guy whos been sleeping in a hedge for a month. The state of KSM provides a glimpse of the career options available to top al-Qaeda honchos: either, like bin Laden, you go into deep cover as a few specks of DNA discreetly sprinkled in the rubble of Tora Bora, or, like The Brain, youve a choice between hunkering down in a safe house or staying on the move, never knowing, even when youre motoring through the emptiness of the Yemeni desert, if some unmanned CIA Predator will drop the big one on you. Of course, many al-Qaeda operatives are hoping to be on a fast track to martyrdom and the 72 virgins. But you gotta have a couple of guys who stay alive long enough to instruct the neophytes in how to kill themselves, and right now al-Qaedas management structure is looking severely hobbled.
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posted on
03/06/2003 2:35:16 PM PST
by
MeekOneGOP
(Bu-bye Saddam! / Check out my Freeper site !: http://home.attbi.com/~freeper/wsb/index.html)
To: eureka!
Bumpus Maximus for later find
Regards
alfa6 ;>}
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posted on
03/06/2003 2:42:47 PM PST
by
alfa6
(GNY Highway's Rules: Improvise; Adapt; Overcome)
To: PLOM...NOT!
Mike Ferret is a leftist, has-been celebrity weasel. That is, he will never work again.
Unfortunately he is currently working on the weekly drama "Providence
Not anymore;the show has been cancelled. So sorry.
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posted on
03/06/2003 2:50:36 PM PST
by
gatorbait
(Yesterday,today and tomorrow..........The United States Army)
To: Pokey78
Anybody got an e-mail address for Mark Steyn?
To: Paul_B
It looks to me like his pieces are getting longer. Always a good read.
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posted on
03/06/2003 2:58:01 PM PST
by
meema
To: MeeknMing
I love that photo! Every time I see it, I yell, "Good one"!
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posted on
03/06/2003 3:01:02 PM PST
by
meema
To: Pokey78
many on the Right think this sort of talk is barking mad applied to Baghdad and beyond. Whats more surprising is that practically everyone on the Left does.
Well if they think it's wrong it must be correct. They've been on the wrong side of history for so long now.
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posted on
03/06/2003 3:09:54 PM PST
by
Geostorm
To: meema
LOL! He does look like he's been sleeping in a hedge for a month ! . . .
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posted on
03/06/2003 4:04:03 PM PST
by
MeekOneGOP
(Bu-bye Saddam! / Check out my Freeper site !: http://home.attbi.com/~freeper/wsb/index.html)
To: Pokey78
bump for later reading
To: Pokey78
Maybe we could let Colin Powell go to the UN and get Mark Steyn for Secretary of State.
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posted on
03/06/2003 4:10:53 PM PST
by
Jesse
To: Pokey78
How DOES Steyn continue to hit these home runs outta the park?
I've got the intellectual "hots" for this guy - he's the best.
Does anyone know where I could access a Steyn archive?
To: HanneyBean
Easiest ways to read past Steyn articles:
Steyn bump list Or do a search on FR with Steyn in the title.
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posted on
03/06/2003 4:55:42 PM PST
by
Pokey78
To: Pokey78
THANKS for the ping.
Wasn't there a Styne bio. posted on one of these threads not too long ago?
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posted on
03/06/2003 6:45:17 PM PST
by
patricia
To: PLOM...NOT!
"Providence" was canceled
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posted on
03/06/2003 6:47:05 PM PST
by
CyberCowboy777
(In those days... Every man did that which was right in his own eyes.)
To: PLOM...NOT!
sorry, i am a little late
you know it already
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posted on
03/06/2003 6:48:11 PM PST
by
CyberCowboy777
(In those days... Every man did that which was right in his own eyes.)
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