February 5, 2004

Obligatory Steyn

Mark Steyn is talking about politics in Britain when he warns that the only way we can make sure we never make another "mistake" with bad intelligence is to never take another action to stop or prevent terrorism, but his point is equally valid on this side of the Atlantic. He says that the alternative to pre-emption is defeat, and that...

Conservatives shouldn't assist the Western world's self-loathing fringe in imposing a burden of proof that can never be met.

And he wishes the Left would act like they give a shit about nuclear proliferation and terror in general:

The Left is remarkably nonchalant about these new terrors. When nuclear weapons were an elite club of five relatively sane world powers, the Left was convinced the planet was about to go ka-boom any minute, and the handful of us who survived would be walking in a nuclear winter wonderland. Now anyone with a few thousand bucks and an unlisted number in Islamabad in his Rolodex can get a nuke, and the Left couldn't care less.

True there, perhaps only slightly less true here. I've read that John Edwards' stump speech , to cite one example, doesn't even mention Iraq, and virtually ignores the War on Terror. We can't go back to pretending it's not important.

Posted by dan at February 5, 2004 12:39 AM