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Scrapbook On the Importance of Awe In the opening hours of the war, you couldn't listen to the TV commentators for more than 30 seconds without hearing the words shock and awe—the Pentagon code...
...Some students in England are about to find out, as four city councils have voted to remove the delightful pastries from school menus for fear of offending non-Christians...
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...It doesn't mean that we fire cruise missiles for a couple of weeks at the Taliban (though that would be a good beginning...
...And chemical suits...
...And gas masks...
...I Scream You Scream A couple of weeks ago, contributing editor Irwin M. Stelzer recommended a few non-French wines for the highbrow anti-Chirac crowd...
...British Muslims have been quite happily eating and digesting hot cross buns for many years and I don't think they are suddenly going to be offended...
...Not to mention pigheaded...
...We couldn't help but detect in this phrase an echo of the prophetic analyses in these pages by our contributing editor Reuel Marc Gerecht...
...But this ballad of a girl who falls in love with a young man on his way to fight in Vietnam hardly does justice to the band's musically stated opinions on war...
...A carnivore, Saddam Hussein probably knew early on (a good guess would be June 1993, when President Clinton cruise-missiled the empty intelligence headquarters) that Washington had no will to fight...
...One imagines things would be easier for the Dixie Chicks if they kept their views hidden in their music...
...More to the point might be these lyrics from the song "More Love": Just look out around us / People fightin' their wars / They think they'll be happy / When they've settled their scores / Let's lay down our weapons / That hold us apart / Be still for just a minute Try to open our hearts...
...By August 1996, when the United States failed to use its airpower to defend the Iraqi National Congress's lightly armed forces against Baghdad's mechanized brigades, there was no doubt...
...and alienating the rest of the world...
...The United States must not try to win a popularity contest in the Arab world—the very act of doing so will make us appear weak...
...Scrapbook On the Importance of Awe In the opening hours of the war, you couldn't listen to the TV commentators for more than 30 seconds without hearing the words shock and awe—the Pentagon code name for the barrage of missiles and bombs that would shake the Iraqi regime to its knees, assuming it didn't surrender first...
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...The Muslim Council of Britain called the action "very bizarre" and said the bun ban was "taking things a bit too far...
...You might try a bowl of I Hate the French Vanilla ice cream...
...America's hayba—its ability to inspire awe, the critical factor in the Middle East's ruthless power politics—had vanished...
...And, oh, never mind...
...In an interesting wrinkle, Salon's Stephanie Zacharek defended the band's original remarks, though at the same time arguing that the band deserved some pro-American credit for paying homage to the military in their song "Travelin' Soldier...
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...Here are a few passages: *** "There are few things in life more debilitating than to make a threat, then fail to follow through...
...Unfortunately actions like this can only create a backlash and it is not very thoughtful...
...We may have to commit the necessary resources and manpower to topple Saddam Hussein...
...It means that we get up close and personal, as Winston Churchill did at Omdurman...
...Whistling Dixie Country fans expressed shock and disappointment last week after the Dixie Chicks told a British audience: "Just so you know, we're ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas...
...We will probably be serving naan breads instead...
...Earlier this month, a teacher in West Yorkshire banned the reading of The Three Little Pigs for fear of upsetting Hindu and Muslim children...
...Bin Laden, Beware: Here's how to break the spirit of the holy warriors," Sept...
...19, 1998) *** "Totalitarians have a sixth sense for democratic weakness...
...Not quite...
...24, 2001) Bunfire of the Vanities What's Easter without hot cross buns...
...Then came the much-discussed "freedom fries" for the man in the street...
...Particularly in the Middle East, where awe is the sine qua non of politics, being seen as 'wobbly' is fatal...
...According to the Times of London, the move took place following some objections to pancakes served in school on Fat Tuesday...
...Good Mullah, Bad Mullah," Jan...
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...nor will Saddam grow weaker...
...When this failed to placate the mob (which featured, among other highlights, a tractor in Bossier City, Louisiana, crushing a pile of the band's CDs), Maines, too, apologized, directly to the president, saying her remarks were "disrespectful...
...Of course, this doesn't mean that we cruise-missile an empty pharmaceutical factory in Sudan and rock-hut training camps in Afghanistan...
...The petulant comment was a sharp departure for the wholesome trio, which quickly apologized on its website for the anti-Bush pandering...
...Explained a spokesman from Tower Hamlets (more than a third of whose residents are Bangladeshi): "We can't risk a similar outcry over Easter like we had on Pancake Day...
...The Muslim Council of Britain similarly called for an end to this ban, which it described as "well-intentioned but misguided...
...This is only the latest in a series of politically correct maneuvers by the English branch of the Church of Multi-culturalism...
...May 14, 2001) *** "To defeat bin Laden and his kind, we have to restore our awe, and the only way you acquire and retain such majesty in the Islamic Middle East is through the use of military power...
...But are Muslims really threatening to rise up against what the Times jokingly calls "bigot buns" and "hate cakes...
...If we are to protect ourselves and our friends in the Middle East, who are many, we have to rebuild the awe which we have lost through nearly a decade of retreat...
...But what to do for dessert...
...The Star Spangled Ice Cream company is taking orders for this and several other politically incorrect flavors (we're partial to Iraqi Road) at www.StarSpangledIceCream.com Tune In, Turn On, Don't Drop Out THE DAILY STANDARD will be covering the war in Iraq 24/7...
...Ah yes, as the troops march on Iraq, all they need is love...
...For several years before the 9/11 attacks and since, Gerecht warned that terrorists in the Middle East had lost their awe of American power, and that the key to stamping out terrorism would be to restore that awe...
...And automatic rifles...
...Duties include answering phones, greeting visitors, sorting mail, handling back-issue requests, and various other administrative tasks...
...And once hayba is lost, only a demonstration of indomitable force restores it...
...We will not grow stronger merely by reinvigorating sanctions...
...America must be prepared to inflict immense damage on any other terrorist organization or terrorist-supporting state, even if that means we have to scorch southern Lebanon or Revolutionary Guard dormitories and depot facilities in Tehran...
...Lead singer Natalie Maines remained defiant, though, saying she thought the president was "ignoring the opinions of many in the U.S...
...Liberate Iraq: Is the Bush administration serious about toppling Saddam Hussein...
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Vol. 8 • March 2003 • No. 28
