Steyn: Obama Can't Say Who We're at War With

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Not long after the Ayatollah Khomeini announced his fatwa against Salman Rushdie, the British novelist suddenly turned up on a Muslim radio station in West London late one night and told his interviewer he'd converted to Islam. Marvelous religion, couldn't be happier, Allahu Akbar and all that.

And the Ayatollah said hey, that's terrific news, glad to hear it. But we're still gonna kill you.

Barack Obama has spent the past year doing big-time Islamoschmoozing, from his announcement of Gitmo's closure and his investigation of Bush officials, to his bow before the Saudi king and a speech in Cairo to "the Muslim world" with far too many rhetorical concessions and equivocations. And at the end of it the jihad sent America a thank-you note by way of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's underwear: Hey, thanks for all the outreach! But we're still gonna kill you.

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For two weeks, the government of the United States has made itself a global laughingstock. Don't worry, "the system worked," said Homeland Security Secretary Janet Incompetano. Don't worry, he was an "isolated extremist," said the president. Don't worry, we're banning bathroom breaks for the last hour of the flight, said the TSA. Don't worry, "U.S. border security officials" told the Los Angeles Times, we knew he was on the plane, and we "had decided to question him when he landed." Don't worry, Obama's counterterrorism chief, John Brennan, assured the Sunday talk shows, sure, we read him his rights, and he's lawyered up but he'll soon see that "there is advantage to talking to us in terms of plea agreements."

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Mark Steyn is quickly becoming my favorite columnist.

[The Village Idiot]

I put Mark Steyn at the very top along with Michelle Malking and Ann Coulter.

Give them a show on Fox!

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I put Mark Steyn at the very top along with Michelle Malking and Ann Coulter.

Give them a show on Fox!

I  Stein and Krauthammer. 

[The Village Idiot]

I  Stein and Krauthammer. 

I stopped reading Charles much after his ridiculous brain fart about how government should set the price of gas at $3.50 and collect the "profits" if its real price is less than that and subsidize it when it gets more than that. Then again even Ben Stein shouldn't talk economics.