[egarvue]

Not a bad rant, but no offense, I have a hard time believing that Dennis Miller actually said or wrote this. Miller has a very distinct style, full of offbeat cultural references and screamingly funny comparisons. This article reads like a rather mundane weblog rant, not Miller's style in the least. And I highly doubt that Miller is religious enough to omit the "o" from "G-d".

Its not a bad rant. But I'm all for trying to find out who the real author is.

[nhoward14]

URBAN LEGEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Claim: Comedian Dennis Miller is the author of "A Brief Overview of the Situation," an Internet-circulated essay about the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Status: False.

Example: [Collected on the Internet, 2002]

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/miller.htm

[garyb]

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.