Mark Steyn :: Quartet of ladies shows where we're headed

Without reading the column one would say hell in a handbasket before you can say capitulation, that's what I would say and we would be right.

So is Mark Steyn as usual in his Sunday column and the state in which we are living that so many deny exists is creeping closer and closer to our doorsteps as we speak and sleep.

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Mark Steyn :: Quartet of ladies shows where we're headed: "Have you seen a movie called ''Four Jills In A Jeep''? Don't worry, it's not at the multiplex. It came out in 1944. A wartime movie, about the contribution of the gals to the big existential struggle. Great title, and downhill after that. This column is, metaphorically speaking, four Jills in a jeep: It's about a quartet of ladies who provide useful glimpses of where we're heading.

The first is Fatma An-Najar, a 64-year-old grandmother who had a livelier Thanksgiving than most grandmas. She marked the occasion by self-detonating in the town of Jebaliya, and, although all she had to show for splattering body parts over the neighborhood were three 'lightly wounded' Israeli soldiers, she will have an honored place in the pantheon of Palestinian heroes. She was, according to the official statistician from the Hamas Book Of Records, the oldest Palestinian suicide bomber ever. And, naturally, her family's pleased as punch.

'We are really happy,' her son Zuheir told Agence France-Presse. 'She told us last night that she would do a suicide operation. She prepared her clothes for that operation, and we are proud. 'I don't want anything, only to die a martyr.' That's what she said.'

Awww, bless the sweet l'il ol' biddy. She wouldn't have wanted to die a long lingering death" read more

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