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Mark Steyn: Looking for love in all the wrong places

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Posted by twobyfour 2007-09-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Americans are generally respectful of their political eminences, no matter how little they deserve it.

This needs to change in a big bad way.

Why do radical imams seek to convert young Canadian, British and even American men and women in their late teens and twenties? Because they understand that when you raise a generation in the great wobbling blancmange of Deval Patrick-style cultural relativism nothing is any better or any worse than anything else; if people are "mean and nasty" to us, it's only because we didn't sing enough Barney the Dinosaur songs at them in such a world a certain percentage of its youth will have a great gaping hole where their sense of identity should be. And into that hole you can pour something fierce and primal and implacable.

I was discussing Islamic terrorism with my friend who runs the local Middle East food store. I've been going there for over a decade. She's a Syrian-born Christian and has had nothing but pure hatred for Muslims. At first I opposed her blanket condemnation of Muslims but in the past few years have had to admit to her that she is right.

We were speculating upon how such young poeplechildren reallycan commit such vicious crimes. Both of our thoughts centered upon the lack of any rational philosophy or reasoned approach to reality. She then uttered an old Syrian saying that stuck permanently in my mind:

"Into an empty jar, you can pour anything."

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-09-17 02:04|| 2007-09-17 02:04|| Front Page Top

#2 a failure of human beings to understand each other, to learn to love each other

One of our leaders said this on the sixth anniversary of the attacks? The same leader who said the attacks were "mean and nasty and bitter"?! I hope this guy can think better than he speaks. Was he crying when he gave his speech? Does this guy look suspiciously like a purple dinosaur?

He's had six years to figure it out but he is still in way over his head, or maybe that beauty contestant from South Carolina is his speech writer. And she hates him.

In any case I hope South Carolina's voters are embarassed enough that they get rid of him at the first opportunity.

Posted by gorb 2007-09-17 04:45|| 2007-09-17 04:45|| Front Page Top

#3 Whoops: Massachusetts voters

Posted by gorb 2007-09-17 04:46|| 2007-09-17 04:46|| Front Page Top

#4 For a moment there I thought we had lost South Carolina forever without a shot being fired.

Posted by wxjames 2007-09-17 07:59|| 2007-09-17 07:59|| Front Page Top

#5 Also, massachusetts voter is pretty much an oxymoron...

Posted by M. Murcek">M. Murcek 2007-09-17 08:15|| 2007-09-17 08:15|| Front Page Top

#6 MM:
I don't think the "oxy" prefix is necessary.

Posted by Gary and the Samoyeds">Gary and the Samoyeds 2007-09-17 08:38|| http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2007-09-17 08:38|| Front Page Top

#7 I love Mark Steyn's work. He has a real gift for rapier wit that is deadly serious.

As a Massachusetts voter who often feels like he's pissing into the wind, I concur with all of the above disparagements of (other) Mass voters.

Posted by xbalanke 2007-09-17 11:51|| 2007-09-17 11:51|| Front Page Top

#8 I always enjoy reading Steyn. His take on Massachusettistan is on target. The continued re-election of Ted Kennedy is more understandable.

Posted by JohnQC 2007-09-17 12:31|| 2007-09-17 12:31|| Front Page Top

#9 This is the same guy a few weeks back that, after some local yoots having a dispute put a bullet into a state house window right under his office, had the Boston cops round up all the local bums who congregate across the street on the Common even though they supposedly had nothing to do with it.
Sounds like another "failure of human beings to understand each other, to learn to love each other." I guess that's for the "little people". Maybe he should've gone over and hugged a bum and made it all better...

Posted by tu3031 2007-09-17 12:42|| 2007-09-17 12:42|| Front Page Top

#10 Maybe he should've gone over and hugged a bum

Why not, Patrick is already hugging Islam's bum.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-09-17 18:05|| 2007-09-17 18:05|| Front Page Top

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