in the Telegraph:

Three years ago, those of us in favour of destabilising the Middle East didn’t have to be far-sighted geniuses: it was a win/win proposition. As Sam Goldwyn said, I’m sick of the old clichés, bring me some new clichés. The old clichés - Pan-Arabism, Baathism, Islamism, Arafatism - brought us the sewer that led to September 11. The new clichés could hardly be worse. Even if the old thug-for-life had merely been replaced by a new thug-for-life, the latter would come to power in the wake of the cautionary tale of the former.

Steyn’s piece is also notable in that it explicitly uses LGF and Instapundit as authoritative sources.

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