Quote of the Day II

Posted By on March 12, 2004 at 1:31 pm

Mark Steyn, on Islamofascists:

And now Spaniards. “We are not fighting so that you will offer us something. We are fighting to eliminate you.” And by “you”, they mean not just arrogant Texan cowboys, but any pluralist society – whether a relaxed tourist resort like Bali or a modern Muslim nation like Turkey or – come to that, one day down the road – a cynical swamp of appeasement like France.

Link via Ian S.

Quote of the Day

Posted By on March 12, 2004 at 10:05 am

James Lileks:

To some, the act of “resistance” has such a romantic pull they cannot possibly renounce the use of flamboyant violence – until they find themselves in a train station on an average weekday morning, ears ringing, eyes clouded, looking down at their shirt, wondering why it’s so red all of a sudden.

And not even then, sometimes.