I LOVE MARK STEYN.....

for his ability to cut to the quick. From a recent story about an innovative Slovak who pissed his way out of an avalanche, he generates a column pointing out the correctness of W's approach to terrorism and the ignorance of his detractors. Read it here.

He clearly defines what we all really mean when we say bring "democracy" to the middle east:

" I prefer to speak of "liberty" or, as Bush says, "freedom", or, as neither of us is quite bold enough to put it, capitalism - free market, property rights, law of contract, etc. That's why Hong Kong is freer than Liberia, if less "democratic". If I had six or seven centuries to work on things, I wouldn't do it this way in Iraq or Afghanistan. But the "war on terror" is more accurately a race against time - to unwreck the Middle East before its toxins wreck South Asia, West Africa, and eventually Europe. The doom-mongers can mock Bush all they want. But they're spending so much time doing so, they've left themselves woefully uninformed on some of the fascinating subtleties of Iraqi and Afghan politics that his Administration turns out to have been rather canny about."

Think about that paragraph - it is full of correct analysis of our current situation.

And at the close you will run across the words "pissoir" and "cystitis" which serve as the binding of the column! Enjoy the read!