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Sunday, September 01, 2002
The Silence of the Hawks
In the recent past, Ann "Slander" Coulter was one of the primary proponents of the "kill all their leaders and convert them to Christianity" school of American foreign policy. Disturbingly, she seems to have expanded her definition of who is the enemy deserving death, to include her some of her fellow Americans.
"My only regret with Timothy McVeigh (the Oklahoma City bomber) is he did not go to the New York Times building".
Obviously, the fact that McVeigh blew up a daycare centre doesn't register on the morality radar of the "new darling of the right". The real evil is that McVeigh allowed the staff of the New York Times to live. It would be tempting to draw comparisons between McVeigh and Coulter, but that would be an injustice to McVeigh. Unlike Coulter, McVeigh regretted that he had blown up a day care centre that was located in the Alfred P. Murrah building.
Anyway, it speaks volumes that for the most part her pronouncement has passed without any comment or criticism. Imagine a prominent Muslim or Arab-American commentator was to say that "my only regret with the hijackers is that they did not reach the White House". The same voices that are now so silent would have been howling for him to be sent to Gitmo to serve out eternity in a 2.4m by 2.4m cage.
Other insights in the same interview: she speaks for the American people, has dated "every Right-winger", Dick Cheney is her ideal man, and Matt Drudge is the sexiest man alive.
