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2005-03-01 Arabia
Steyn: The Arabs' Berlin Wall has crumbled
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Posted by JerseyMike 2005-03-01 08:04|| || Front Page|| [11130 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 sixties people...sing along:

Come gather round people wherever you roam
And admit that the waters around you have grown
And accept it that soon you’ll be drenched to the bone
If your time to you is worth saving
Then you’d better start swimming or you’ll sink like a stone
For the times, they are a changing

Come writers and critics who prophesize with your pens
And keep your eyes open, the chance won’t come again
And don’t speak too soon, the wheel’s still in spin
And there’s no telling who that it’s naming
Oh the loser will be later to win
For the times, they are a changing

Come senators, congressmen, please head the call
Don’t stand in the doorway, don’t block up the hall
For he that gets hurt will be her that has stalled
The battle outside ragging will soon shake your windows
And rattle your hall
For the times, they are a changing

Come mothers and fathers all over this land
And don’t criticize what you can’t understand
Your sons and your daughter are beyond your command
Your old role is rapidly aging
Please get out of the new one if you can’t lend a hand
For the times they are a changing

The line, it is drawn, the curse, it is cast
The slow one will later be fast
And the present now will soon be the past
The order is rapidly fading
The first one now will later be last
For the times, they are a changing
Posted by 2b 2005-03-01 8:34:19 AM||   2005-03-01 8:34:19 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 LOL.

Think Woodstock with Marines instead of hippies.
Posted by Matt 2005-03-01 8:54:23 AM||   2005-03-01 8:54:23 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Think Woodstock with Marines instead of hippies

Yes, but more importantly...

Think LEBANON run by LEBANESE instead of SYRIANS!
Posted by BigEd 2005-03-01 11:57:01 AM||   2005-03-01 11:57:01 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Ok, all you current/former military types: take out your calculators. Question: how many [units of your choice -- I only know platoons, brigades and divisions] is our new Sect'y of State, Dr. Condoleeza Rice, worth? How much more when she wears a black coat and spike-heeled boots? ;-)
Posted by trailing wife 2005-03-01 12:07:40 PM||   2005-03-01 12:07:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#5  How much more when she wears a black coat and spike-heeled boots?

Ummm! I'd like to see THAT.
Posted by Ptah  2005-03-01 12:08:29 PM|| [http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org]  2005-03-01 12:08:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Ptah - did you miss it?
Posted by 2b 2005-03-01 12:11:24 PM||   2005-03-01 12:11:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 It's an relationship derived from heel length and ground pressure. But generally a 3 inch heel with a 3 sq. inch landing area is equavalent to a Mechanized Brigade.
Posted by Shipman 2005-03-01 12:18:08 PM||   2005-03-01 12:18:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 I expect .com could illustrate with shoes worth a mechanized army.
Posted by Shipman 2005-03-01 12:19:17 PM||   2005-03-01 12:19:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 The US 7th Fleet.
Posted by badanov  2005-03-01 12:22:38 PM|| [http://www.rkka.org]  2005-03-01 12:22:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Wearing only a black coat and spike-heeled boots, please.
Posted by thibaud (aka lex) 2005-03-01 2:15:57 PM||   2005-03-01 2:15:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 However, the recent elections in Iraq and Saudi Arabia did not reveal much support for Western liberty and democracy. Arabs love to wallow in the muck of chaos and mayhem.
Posted by Couth 2005-03-01 4:48:56 PM||   2005-03-01 4:48:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Agreed about the Magic Kingdom, Couth, but if you read the Iraqi bloggers and the blogs of those over there (one version is called "Milblogs," I think) you'll discover that the Iraqis have been mad for participative democracy at all levels from running the local village to electing representatives to the National government. Not uncouth at all, I'm happy to say.
Posted by trailing wife 2005-03-01 9:43:27 PM||   2005-03-01 9:43:27 PM|| Front Page Top

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