Update, 7/12/12, I've left a comment at the end of this post about Instapundit's continued pathetic attacks on Mark Steyn. (Susan, blog editor).
3/25/11, "Mark Steyn: Do-gooders in a land with no good guys," Orange County Register
- of a very peculiar worldview:
"That's why building this international coalition has been so important," he said the other day.
- "It is our military that is being volunteered by others to carry out missions
that are important not only to us, but are important internationally."
That's great news. Who doesn't enjoy volunteering other people? The Arab League, for reasons best known to itself, decided that Col. Gadhafi had outlived his sell-by date. Granted that the region's squalid polities haven't had a decent military commander since King Hussein fired General Sir John Glubb half-a-century back, how difficult could it be even for Arab armies to knock off a psychotic transvestite guarded by Austin Powers fembots? But no:
- Instead, the Arab League decided to volunteer the U.S. military.
Likewise, the French and the British. Libya's special forces are trained by Britain's SAS. Four years ago, President Sarkozy hosted a state visit for Col. Gadhafi, his personal security detail of 30 virgins, his favorite camel and a 400-strong entourage that helped pitch his tent in the heart of Paris. Given that London and Paris have the third- and fourth-biggest military budgets on the planet and that between them they know everything about Gadhafi's elite troops, sleeping arrangements, guard-babes and dromedaries, why couldn't they take him out? But no:
- They, too, decided to volunteer the U.S. military."
Update: 7/12/12, Comment: Mark Steyn is a treasure, one of the few we have. I've enjoyed every word he's written and had lots of laughs listening to him the many times he's filled in for Rush. The proprietor of the site Instapundit has more than once out of the blue attacked Mark Steyn as a "pessimist," the most recent being today. The proprietor of Instapundit has serious problems to go out of his way to attack Mark Steyn as he has. I'm not going to click on his latest link about why he thinks this of Mr. Steyn. He's made the reference before and hasn't taken it back. Instapundit lost all credibility in my view before today and even before the first time he criticized Mark Steyn. I was interested to read that Mr. Instapundit went to Grover Norquist's place for a Breitbart memorial shortly after Breitbart's tragic death. Sometime after that, Instapundit did an interview with Norquist about a book he wrote. No doubt Mr. Instapundit will have great success as a professional Republican. If it weren't for people like Grover Norquist this country wouldn't have needed someone like Andrew Breitbart as desperately as it did.
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