Is Dean Steyn-proof?
Our friends at RealClearPolitics give pride of place on a day with many excellent columns to Mark Steyn's "The bike-path left." Steyn administers justice to Howard Dean in his inimitable manner: "On Osama bin Laden, he's Mister Insouciant. But he gets mad about bike paths. Destroy the World Trade Center and he's languid and laconic and blasé. Obstruct plans to convert the ravaged site into a memorial bike path and he'll hunt you down wherever you are." Is Howard Dean Steyn-proof?
Tony Blankley puts the capture of Saddam Hussein into broad perspective in "The value of persistence." His column is an excellent companion piece to Steyn's meditation on the phenomenon of Howard Dean. Blankley writes:
"Not since the Nazi leadership was shipped off to Nuremberg has so major a world villain been brought to justice. This fact makes the Iraq war a far better thing than it was. Whether or not it turns out a geo-strategic success, the Iraqi war has accomplished something very good — it has delivered a deeply deserved and yearned for justice. Howard Dean's line — that it was the wrong war at the wrong time — has lost its thundering righteousness. Anyone with a sense of justice and decency would be embarrassed to continue reciting that line after Sunday morning."
