PUBLIC NUISANCES: Democratic Death Wish/A Taste of Britishness
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
PUBLIC NUISANCES R. Emmet t T yrr ell, J r . Democratic Death Wish WASHINGTON I T LOOKS LIKE A DEATH WISH TO ME. The Democrats’ recent all-night debate to confect legislation for pulling...
...Anbar province was until recently a lost cause...
...Kevin Bergner, he is “believed to be the most senior Iraqi in al Qaeda in Iraq network...
...Brown seems to have little in common with the bubbleheaded socialists, pacifists, vegetarians, and other zanies who founded his party...
...As in Anbar, local sheiks have come to our side, recognizing that we will leave their province a lot faster than a victorious al Qaeda, and we will leave their lands in relative freedom...
...Well, London is under more grievous threat from Islamist terrorists than any city in Europe, and Brown understands that patriotic fervor is apt to bring the British citizenry—Christian, Jew, non-believer, and Muslim—together and isolate the terrorists...
...It is fascinating to see how Labour has moved away from so many of the misconceived ideas of progress...
...Any party of the left that has wanted to win high office has discarded its left-wing enthusiasms of yore...
...What makes this all the more bizarre is that General Petraeus’s new strategy seems to be working...
...Not only is it a handsome flag, but it is an indication of British grit against terror, which frankly I never doubted...
...Loose” morals were also punished...
...We’ve got to get rid of the rule,” he vowed...
...I fly the Stars and Stripes with relish seven days a week...
...The actual rule required the flag to be raised on buildings on 18 specific days...
...They look very good to me...
...Not even Mayor Bloomberg has gone that far...
...For instance, if a local was caught carrying tomatoes in the same bag as cucumbers, the bearer of such a lewd mix would be beaten or worse...
...Harry Reid say...
...Those of us who in the 1960s adhered to the ideas of William F. Buckley and Milton Friedman have never had to cover our intellectual tracks...
...Are its members going to allow our troops to continue their work at least up to the earlier agreed upon September report...
...Now the Democrats want the general to begin a retreat even before tendering his agreed upon September report—a death wish, I say...
...Well, cheerio, now the flags are flying from every government flagpole...
...I suppose this should not surprise us...
...They came to political maturity—if that is the term for it—in the late 1960s abounding with the ideas of the likes of Saul Alinsky, various Marxists, and other proponents of utopia...
...Think of the Clintons in the Democratic Party...
...After all, the Senate returned him to Iraq by an 81 to 0 vote...
...How far to the left Brown was in his youth I do not know...
...A day later he embarrassedly admitted that no such ban existed...
...The continental government’s regulations, however, are beginning to offend local ways of life, which explains the rejection of the EU constitution by the French and the Danes and my suspicion that Britain’s electorate would reject further integration into the EU...
...Alinsky and Marx are forgotten...
...Suffice to say that if London’s ties to the EU get much tighter, the UK will no longer be an independent country and its special relationship with the United States will be but a memory...
...The country’s new prime minister, Gordon Brown, has prescribed “Britishness” as an antidote to the Islamofascists who tried to blow-up two cars in the heart of London and in desperation rammed a gasolineladen Jeep Cherokee into a terminal at Glasgow airport, hoping it would blow them to Kingdom come and all the welcoming virgins...
...The Democrats’ recent all-night debate to confect legislation for pulling our troops out of Iraq immediately if not sooner suggests that they are, en masse, afflicted with a death wish—and if their retreat gets more of our troops killed while transforming Iraq into bloody anarchy, they do not seem to care...
...When he first brought the matter up in public he said there was a rule against government buildings flying the Union Jack more than 18 days a year...
...In fact, it is actually quite reactionary...
...David Petraeus’s new strategy a chance...
...They believe in “progress” and, ever since the end of World War II, one of the ingredients of progress has been integration of all the nations of Europe into one vast continental government...
...They are like Don Quixote, though less good-natured...
...According to the Zogby poll, 83 percent of the American people say the Democratic Congress is doing only a fair to poor job...
...Just 66 percent hold such a sour view of the President...
...There is something amusingly oblivious about them...
...Embarrassingly for him he was nabbed on July 4. According to Brig...
...Would it be considered cruel punishment to inflict a bag of tomatoes and cucumbers on him...
...Local residents directed the Americans to a building where they found the instruments of torture...
...But its way was repellently brutal to local Iraqis, who increasingly saw al Qaeda as even more alien than the troops of the Coalition...
...Today’s Democrats have a 14 percent approval rating...
...Recently our troops mounted a deadly operation against al Qaeda, killing hundreds and capturing more...
...By Britishness he means a renewal of patriotism and civic virtue, a reverence for British history, and the flying of the Union Jack...
...It has also been imposed by al Qaeda in Diyala province...
...Part of the explanation is the savage brand of Sharia imposed by al Qaeda in Ramadi...
...It has long been a party of the left, and flying one’s national flag has never been a progressive thing to do...
...But this will not be sufficient to repress the suicide bombers...
...Our Porous Borders Are Exacting A Terrible Price,” is how a Daily Telegraph titled its lead editorial...
...About a year ago local leaders in Anbar began siding with us, and now their fighters working with our soldiers and the Iraqi army have sent al Qaeda packing...
...As with the hubristic bureaucrats now running the EU, many British politicians see themselves as superior to the electorate...
...Once again a catalyst for the sheiks’ cooperation was al Qaeda’s brand of Sharia...
...And what will happen if that report finds things turning our way in Iraq...
...Al Qaeda was having its way with the place...
...It was founded on ideas of “progress...
...So now we are back to the Democrat-controlled Congress...
...Their punishment, however, is even harsher...
...I would not be surprised to see the Democrats saying they had predicted victory all along...
...PUBLIC NUISANCES R. Emmet t T yrr ell, J r . Democratic Death Wish WASHINGTON I T LOOKS LIKE A DEATH WISH TO ME...
...Now Prime Minister Brown is a member of the British Labour Party...
...78 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR SEPTEMBER 2007 R. EMMETT TYRRELL, JR...
...But there was one embarrassing lapse during his summons to the flag...
...SEPTEMBER 2007 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR 79...
...Not long ago most of them were prepared to give Gen...
...Yes, Brown actually called for the flying of the flag...
...Now comes word that our troops have captured Khaled Abdul-Fattah Dawoud al-Mashhadani, Abu Shahid for short...
...Their punishment of transgressions committed by local residents included murdering children, often with public beheadings...
...Nearby, corpses, many headless, were buried...
...In fact, this Democrat-controlled Congress is even more unpopular than the Republican-controlled Congress that it replaced...
...On its deathbed the Republican-controlled Congress had but a 23 percent approval rating...
...The ordinary British citizen probably opposes further integration in the EU...
...It looks as though the Republicans are going to force them to...
...The evidence is that the American people are watching this Congress and what they see they do not like...
...The first issue is not easily apprehensible to a Yank visitor...
...A Taste of Britishness LONDON T HERE SEEM TO BE TWO fundamental political issues here this summer: how much more tightly to entoil the United Kingdom with the European Union and how to defeat Islamist terror, much of it home grown...
...Hysteria has seized them...
...Ramadi, once an al Qaeda model for Sharia, is one of the safest cities in Iraq...
...Need I say more...
...Some of the muftis captured in Baqubah were fleeing the city hidden in women’s traditional dress...
...Diyala, not surprisingly, is going the way of Anbar...
...What has turned the leader of the Labour Party into a flag waver...
...This scheme to insinuate Britain further into a grand continental government is also colliding with Britain’s need to defend itself against Islamist terror...
...According to a recent Zogby poll, this Democratcontrolled Congress is now more unpopular than President George W. Bush, who, incidentally, will not be seeking re-election...
...What would Sen...
...There grisly torture chambers were discovered after our military liberated the province’s major city, Baqubah...
...On a more amusing note, al Qaeda’s muftis also seem to share our progressives’ disapproval of tobacco...
...Maybe many of these Democratic solons plan to retire too...
...On the other hand, politicians—even many conservative British politicians—surreptitiously invite further integration...
...Any resident of Diyala found smoking in public or even sporting nicotine stains had his or her offending fingers chopped off...
...Al Qaeda had brought in foreign judges, called muftis...
...I say death wish...
...I wonder what Abu Shahid was wearing...
...Hence this summer in London we are hearing a refrain that Americans have been hearing for several years, the refrain lamenting “Our Porous Borders...
...The Clintons have, and today, at least on a good day, they intone some of the values of Buckley and Friedman...
Vol. 40 • September 2007 • No. 7
