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Mark Steyn on when it'll be over |
2001-11-01 |
For a month now, the administration has gone the Colin Powell route — restrained warfare, multinational mumbo-jumbo, would-you-like-the-chicken-or-beef? — and the result has been jeers all round from Mary Robinson, the aid agencies, the European press, Tony Blair’s backbenchers and at least some of his Cabinet. This is not an audience worth playing to. And the only audience that does matter — America’s more equivocal ‘friends’ in the Arab world — respects might far more than Halal McNuggets. It’s time to stop trying to be liked and to start trying to be feared. (The Spectator Mark Steyn) The quicker and more thoroughly the war in Afghanistan is won, the quicker we can attend to the humanitarian needs of the Afghan people, while hanging Talebs. Holding back will actually be more painful for both sides in the long run. As for the concerns of the "Arab street," why are we more obligated to consider their sensibilities than they are to consider ours? |
Posted by:Fred Pruitt |