Annie
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Girlie man! Has fun with Arnold's lines:
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Terminator or girlie man?
Does the US still have the will to win? Mark Steyn on the stark choices facing Americans in November Everyone wants to know what the key demographic will be in this election. In 1996, it was soccer moms; in 1994, angry white men. For Campaign 04, the columnist Michelle Malkin has been touting the concept of security moms gun-owning women whom 9/11 shook out of their Gen-X stupor.
Id say security moms or bellicose women, as Prof Glenn Reynolds, Americas Instapundit, dubbed them were certainly a factor and maybe a decisive one in Republican gains in the 2002 elections. But I wonder if there are quite so many of them two years on. And, in the absence of any alternative suggestions, it seems to me the key group in this election may be girlie men.
Sloth favours the Islamists. Readers may recall that I wanted Bush to invade Iraq before the first anniversary of 9/11. If he had done, hed have saved himself a whole lot of trouble, and we might even be rid of the mullahs or Boy Assad by now. The President has to be a terminator: he has to terminate regimes and structures that support Islamist terrorism. And, if every bigshot associated with the cause winds up like Uday and Qusay, the ideology will become a lot less fashionable. All these girlie-man options sound so reasonable, but theyre a fools evasion, an excuse to put off indefinitely the fights that have to be fought in Iran, North Korea and elsewhere.
Girlie men are men without chests in the C.S. Lewis sense, rather than the Schwarzenegger one. I didnt come up with this choice, nor did Arnold. The enemy did. As I wrote back in 2001, the Islamists have made a bet that were too soft and decadent to see this through to the finish. This November, one way or another, theyll get their answer.