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| Two (!!) from Mark Steyn |
| 2005-02-01 |
| Y'all come back to Rantburg after you've read them both Iraq is now the home of the brave — and soon the free Opening paragraph: Driving along and twiddling the radio dial on Sunday night, I caught this tantalising snippet: "In Madrid, demonstrators took to the streets to protest the Iraqi election." I'm fairly blasé about European decadence these days - I barely raised an eyebrow at the news that an unemployed waitress in Berlin faces the loss of her welfare benefits because she's refused to take a job as a prostitute in a legalised brothel - but, even so, it surely couldn't be true that the Spaniards so objected to the Iraqi election that they were protesting about it. The 'civil war' that wasn't Opening paragraph: AND so the "looming Iraqi election fiasco" joins "the brutal Afghan winter" and "the brutal Iraqi summer" and "the seething Arab street" and all the other junk in the overflowing trash can of post-9/11 Western media fictions. The sight of millions of brave voters emerging from polling stations holding high their purple dye-stained fingers was so inspiring that, from America's Democratic Party to European protest rallies, opponents of the war waited, oh, all of three minutes before flipping the Iraqis their own fingers, undyed. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #4 John, I don't think all his syndication contracts allow it.... |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-02-01 8:53:25 PM |
| #3 Yeah but he's still not posting all the links on his website. I wonder if he's doing that to boost his booksales. Or maybe it's a test so that he can compare the amount of traffic he drives to his articles with and without his website. Or maybe his intern quit/left. Those of us who anticipate his every article now have to suffer and search hard and hope we don't miss one or two, like the ones in the Irish Times or whatever. |
| Posted by: John in Tokyo 2005-02-01 8:47:35 PM |
| #2 And here I was worried that Steyn wouldn't come back from his post-election leave. He was just re-loading. |
| Posted by: Classical_Liberal 2005-02-01 7:59:19 PM |
| #1 Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you the incomparabe Mark Steyn: "International community", by the way, doesn't mean Tony Blair, John Howard, the Poles, Japan, India, Fiji, et al but Jacques Chirac and Kofi Annan, a pantomime horse in which both men are playing the rear end. [emph mine] snippet from the "wasn't civil war" |
| Posted by: glenn 2005-02-01 4:37:32 PM |