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2005-07-08 Europe

The quiet-life option ensures that attacks go on

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Posted by anonymous5089 2005-07-08 06:52|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 It's unfair to cherry-pick this great piece, but that's the way it goes...

The inactivity of Do-Nothin' Doug and his fellow Lions of Lethargy a decade ago had terrible consequences and recruited more jihadists than any of Bush's daisy cutters. The fact that most of us were unaware of the consequences of EU lethargy on Bosnia until that chicken policy came home to roost a decade later should be sobering: it was what Don Rumsfeld, in a remark mocked by many snide media twerps, accurately characterised as an "unknown unknown" - a vital factor so successfully immersed you don't even know you don't know it.

Perfect. This goes into the mailbag. Thx Mark. Thx A5089.

Posted by .com 2005-07-08 14:12|| 2005-07-08 14:12|| Front Page Top

#2 "...This is the beginning of a long existential struggle..."
No, it's NOT the beginning:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2005310401,00.html

Note that The Sun hasn't even included the many Islamic atrocities in Israel.
Hattip: LGF. http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/

Posted by Tom 2005-07-08 14:19|| 2005-07-08 14:19|| Front Page Top

#3 Steyn's pretty close to a genius at what he does, and I don't toss that term lightly. Thank goodness he (and Hitch and VDH) are on our side.

Posted by docob 2005-07-08 14:23|| 2005-07-08 14:23|| Front Page Top

#4 ...and lest we forget, thanks also for Fred, Glen, Jeff Goldtein, the gone-but-not-forgotten Allah, and all the others I haven't the recall or the bandwidth to mention. My sincerest thanks for what you do on a battlefront that this time around may prove similar in importance to any other.

Posted by docob 2005-07-08 14:29|| 2005-07-08 14:29|| Front Page Top

#5 Goldtein=Goldstein

Posted by docob 2005-07-08 14:30|| 2005-07-08 14:30|| Front Page Top

#6 And, uh, Glen=Glenn. Maybe I need a typing refresher course.

Posted by docob 2005-07-08 14:50|| 2005-07-08 14:50|| Front Page Top

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