You are right. LARRY Miller wrote the essay:
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/miller.htm Quoting Snopes:
This diatribe is actually part of a column by humorist Larry Miller which appeared in The Daily Standard on 22 April 2002. It is a reaction piece to a 10 April 2002 FOX News Network interview conducted by Greta van Susteren with Ishmael Abu-Shanab, spokesman for the Hamas political wing in the Gaza strip, and American attorney Stanley Cohen, who has represented the head of Hamas.
The version circulating on the Internet omits a four-paragraph lead-in about the ludicrosity of anyone named Cohen's defending Hamas, the Palestinian organization responsible for the 27 March Passover bombing that killed 19 and injured 100 at a hotel in Netanya, as well as many other bombings. It also leaves off the five-paragraph finish primarily devoted to a discussion of Colin Powell's (then) projected peace mission and disparagement of van Susteren's politeness to her two guests. The core of the article -- the "brief overview" -- is reproduced faithfully.
This was not the first piece by Larry Miller to have gained widespread Internet circulation while attributed to a different source. In March 2002, his essay decrying a tendency to minimalize the horror of terrorism and society's washing its hands of problems that don't yield to easy solutions ("You Say You Want a Resolution") rocketed through cyberspace attributed to Gen. Richard E. Hawley, a United States Air Force general.
I had the pleasure of meeting Larry Miller at LAX a long time ago (1992--my hubby and I loved him on Comedy Central's "Stand Up Stand Up"). I noticed that he was carrying a copy of a P.J. O'Roarke (sp) book, so I was immediately impressed. He was a little startled that I had recognized him, but flattered, I think. Very nice man...He signed one of my business cards with a favorite line from his stand up routine: "I saw the SUN!"
Among the roles you may recognize: the boot-licking clothing salesman in "Pretty Woman", the Ob./Gyn Dad in "Ten Things I Hate About You".