When in Rome, do as the Visigoths do

From: Jerusalem Post | Date: February 17, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

MARK STEYN
Jerusalem Post
02-17-2005
Headline: When in Rome, do as the Visigoths do
Byline: MARK STEYN
Edition; Daily
Section: Opinion
Page: 16

Thursday, February 17, 2005 -- It's a good basic axiom that if you take a quart of ice cream and a quart of dog poop and mix 'em together the result will taste more like the latter than the former. That's the problem with the UN. If you make the free nations and the thug states members of the same club, the danger isn't that they'll meet each other halfway but that the free world winds up going three-quarters, seven-eighths of the way. Thus the ...

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