Mark Steyn: America is winning

The Spectator (U.K.) ^ | 03/08/03 | Mark Steyn

[blackie]

Mark Steyn does it again ... Perfectly!!

Let's Roll!

[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you so much for the heads up!

[Leto]

Farrell's last show 'Providence" was cancelled a couple of months ago.

[dead]

BUMP! Incisive as always!

[GirlShortstop]

...the obsession with Iraq is draining resources from the war on terror. ‘That is the threat that should be being pursued,’ he huffed.

It’s good to know that the anti-war arguments are now so unreal they’re impervious to any actual developments back in what we call the real world.

Bump for another one outta-the-ballpark-Steyn.

[MeekOneGOP]

ROFL !

1) Al-Qa’eda: If the war on terror is, as the has-been senators contend, ‘almost forgotten’, it’s because al-Qa’eda have been unable to pull off any attacks on Western soil in a year and a half. That’s 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 they’ve been able to hit Westerners only in less rigorously policed jurisdictions like Tunisia and Bali, and now the Philippines. So, in any objective sense, America’s 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-Qa’eda 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 who’s run out of everything except back hair. Asked to account for the stark difference in appearance, several experts pointed out that he’s a ‘master of disguise’. In that case, the master of disguise is doing a great job of convincingly passing himself off as a guy who’s been sleeping in a hedge for a month. The state of KSM provides a glimpse of the career options available to top al-Qa’eda 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’, you’ve a choice between hunkering down in a ‘safe house’ or staying on the move, never knowing, even when you’re motoring through the emptiness of the Yemeni desert, if some unmanned CIA Predator will drop the big one on you. Of course, many al-Qa’eda 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-Qa’eda’s management structure is looking severely hobbled.

[alfa6]

Bumpus Maximus for later find

Regards

alfa6 ;>}

[gatorbait]

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.

[MoralSense]

Anybody got an e-mail address for Mark Steyn?

[meema]

It looks to me like his pieces are getting longer. Always a good read.

[meema]

I love that photo! Every time I see it, I yell, "Good one"!

[Geostorm]

many on the Right think this sort of talk is barking mad applied to Baghdad and beyond. What’s 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.

[MeekOneGOP]

LOL! He does look like he's been sleeping in a hedge for a month ! . . .

[Archimedes2000]

bump for later reading

[Jesse]

Maybe we could let Colin Powell go to the UN and get Mark Steyn for Secretary of State.

[HanneyBean]

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?

[Pokey78]

Easiest ways to read past Steyn articles: Steyn bump list

Or do a search on FR with Steyn in the title.

[patricia]

THANKS for the ping.
Wasn't there a Styne bio. posted on one of these threads not too long ago?

[CyberCowboy777]

"Providence" was canceled

[CyberCowboy777]

sorry, i am a little late

you know it already