Mark Steyn is a humorous commentator on the contemporary scene. He writes for publications in the US, the UK, and Canada. Although, I suppose he is center-right, but he writes for leftist publications as well as others.
This is from the Telegraph, whose lead-in said:
"There's no dysentery or cholera, no sign of a human catastrophe, the roads and medical centres are empty and the countryside charming. Yes, writes Mark Steyn, there's no place like Iraq for a holiday."
He hired a jalopy in Jordan, went across the border as far as the outskirts of Baghdad, then north to places like Kirkuk.
He mentioned
His remarks about the NGO's in their new shining white SUVs trying to find trouble is delightful and funny.
He said:
"I drove as far east as the outskirts of Baghdad and as far north as Kirkuk. I spent a pleasant evening prowling round Saddam's home town of Tikrit, where I detected a frisson of menace in the air, but marginally less than in, say, Stockwell, south London."
After the continuous doom and gloom, it's refreshing to read someone who got in a car and went across the desert to see for himself.
As Steyn said:
"But, when the naysayers started moving on to claim that the whole post-war scene was going disastrously for the Yanks, I honestly didn't know what to make of it. As a general rule of thumb, when two non-government organisations, the French foreign minister, Dominique de Villepin, the BBC and the New York Times agree that the whole powder keg's about to go up, it's a safe bet that things are going swimmingly."
I haven't read Steyn for months, but Junior insisted I should drop everything and read this piece.
It's good. Go to the Telegraph at:
http://tinyurl.com/d6ty
It was a long one, so I changed it to a "Tiny Url".
Harry
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