December 03, 2002
WAR: I'm With Stupid
Call George W. a moron? Mark Steyn's on the case! "Calling America the Great Moron, by contrast [to 'Great Satan'], is just feeble. I happen to like moral clarity myself, but I can appreciate that for some tastes Bush's habit of dividing the world into "good" and "evil" and using these terms non-ironically might seem a little simplistic. But it's nowhere near as simplistic as dividing the world into "I'm right" and "you're stupid"."
Steyn also turns a perfect descriptive phrase, noting that Canada, in the showdown with Iraq, is "doing its usual routine of insisting the sidelines are the moral high ground."