Perspective

As you probably know or may not, Ann Coulter has written a new book, entitled "Treason." There's a good review of it over at Opinion Journal Online. One interesting quote; "Ms. Coulter's work includes an admiring if brief biography of McCarthy's political career. One that for some reason excludes the senator's remarkable efforts on behalf of the members of the SS battle group who executed 86 American POWs in the Ardennes campaign in December 1944; otherwise known as the Malmedy Massacre. In his impassioned efforts on behalf of the accused--one never to be repeated in his investigative career--the senator charged that the U.S. Army had cruelly mistreated the former SS men."


Salon also has a good review of it by Joe Conason, but you have to click through an ad to get a day pass and read it--I think it's worth it, but it's up to you.

Conason states, "It turns out that all her raking over the ancient history of communism and anti-communism serves only as preparation to construct false contemporary analogies. Just as anyone who disagreed with McCarthy was a traitor, so was anyone who opposed the war in Vietnam or dissented from Reagan's war in Nicaragua or doubted Bush's war in Iraq.

In Coulter's beloved country there is no place for debate, only conformity. And in "Treason" there is no space for the complicated, mundane reality of American political life. Conservatives good, liberals bad, is her shrieking mantra."

The answer isn't to shriek "Liberals Good, Conservatives Bad," it's calm reasoned debate. Or at least that's my opinion.