Mark Steyn At His Best

I laughed out loud several times while reading these two excellent articles from Mark Steyn: Rubber Fetish and Telling It Like It Isn't

Here's a section from one of the articles:
When something terrible happens around the world, as it does fairly regularly in this Hobbesian turn-of-the-millenium, Canadians seem stunned to discover there's no local angle. A tsunami devastates Banda Aceh, a hurricane totals New Orleans: why isn't the Canadian government doing something?

Well, okay, not doing something: that would be too much to expect. But why isn't it saying something? Why doesn't Paul Martin go out and emote about how concerned we all are?

Well, okay, we're not so much concerned as we are concerned to appear concerned. But we're concerned he's not concerned about how concerned we are to appear concerned.

And on it goes. This is a predictable consequence of Canada choosing--consciously, for the most part--to sit things out in the post-9/11 world.