(LOL)NRO's Cliff May on the Irwin/stingray/Islamo fascist connection

[underpants]

Monday, September 04, 2006

RE: DEATH BY STINGRAY

You’re right, Kathryn, pace CNN, most Americans probably are not in imminent danger of death by stingray. But I do wonder if Irwin, having taken risks so oftten in the past, having cheated death on so many occasions, may not have gradually become over-confident in the face of danger.

Nations, as much as individuals are susceptible to such thinking. Kissinger said – I wish I could find the exact quote – that past victories can lead to defeat because those past victories can appear to have been inevitable.

I worry that because Americans proved equal to the task of defeating the Axis is the 1940s, and because the Communists lost the Cold War, too many of us have come to think we will of course defeat the Militant Islamists or the Islamo-Fascists or Radical Jihadis or whatever term you prefer. But the outcome of those other pastwars was not inevitable. Nor is the outcome of this one. Every stingray is a very real and present danger.
Posted at 5:32 PM

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=OTBiOGNlNjQwNGE5NGUxZWM5ZWE2YzNjNjczZDZmMWY=

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[TlalocW]

1. In regards to Irwin

I'm guessing that the reason the media haven't gone crazy trying to panic everyone with the possibility of stingray attacks is because with the season almost over, it's too late for their, "Summer of the Stingrays," reports with the swooping, scary graphics, etc.

On the Daily Show, Stephen Colbert did a great job sending up the Summer of the Sharks frenzy the media were in a few years ago by finding various causes of death more common than shark attack and trying to get the season labeled, "Summer of the Coconuts," "Summer of the Stairs," etc.

TlalocW

[Elidor]

2. Holy flipping fuck!

:wow:

You couldn't make this shit up! Death by stingray as a metaphor for the GWOT, tracing America's path from WWII through the Cold War and ending - as a cautionary tale - at the dead body of an Australian TV star.

He's smoking crack. And loving it.

[Stinky The Clown]

3. I've seen that face before ......

.... as a reflection in my toilet ......

[kitkat65]

4. I honestly thought this was satire at my first reading

Until I read his Wilson piece and realized he was serious. Wow, who needs The Onion anymore?