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10/18/2004 Archived Entry: "Mark Steyn: The short man stands tall"

Posted by steve @ 03:15 PM EST [Link]

THE THIRD PILLAR: Goodness, another day, another link to a Mark Steyn essay. Today Mark pens a nice piece about Australian prime minister John Howard.

But Howard, for a man routinely described as having no charisma, manages to hit just the right tone. The French got all the attention in the days after September 11 with that Le Monde headline – "Nous sommes tous Americains" – but even at the time I preferred Howard's take: "There's no point in a situation like this being an 80 per cent ally."

Read on.