[kcvl]

John Gibson just talked about this person coming to the United States to promote something...

[paulklenk]

"Margaret Drabble" -- what a fitting name.

[tomahawk]

The author is mentally ill.

[Camel Joe]

Just saw the show, we need to FReep her tour from start to finish. I think rotten veggies are in order ;).

[KantianBurke]

Poor baby. She should have a nice cup of STFU!

[CzarNicky]

Does anyone have that picture of how to tie a noose that this idiot can study?

[Dr.Deth]

John Gibson just talked about this person coming to the United States to promote something...

Probably this --->

[bikepacker67]

Others have written eloquently about the euphemistic and affectionate names that the Americans give to their weapons of mass destruction: Big Boy, Little Boy, Daisy Cutter, and so forth.

We are accustomed to these sobriquets; to phrases such as "collateral damage" and "friendly fire" and "pre-emptive strikes". We have almost ceased to notice when suicide bombers are described as "cowards". The abuse of language is part of warfare. Long ago, Voltaire told us that we invent words to conceal truths. More recently, Orwell pointed out to us the dangers of Newspeak.

But there was something about those playfully grinning warplane faces that went beyond deception and distortion into the land of madness. A nation that can allow those faces to be painted as an image on its national aeroplanes has regressed into unimaginable irresponsibility. A nation that can paint those faces on death machines must be insane.

Ummmm... correct me if I'm wrong, but painting characters on warplanes, dates back at least as far as WWII, and is not a uniquely American custom.

[Prime Choice]

I loathe America, and what it has done to the rest of the world...

Like stopping Nazism, Communism and a host of other totalitarian states, eh? Margaret, my dearest Useful Idiot, if it wasn't for the U.S., you'd have been raised as the Hitler Youth and would be executed for expressing any opinion contrary to the State. Such is not the case. You're welcome.

I detest American imperialism, American infantilism, and American triumphalism about victories it didn't even win.

If America were truly "imperialist," then we'd count Germany, Holland, France, Japan and North Africa among our states in the union. Get over your rabid anti-Americanism, you silly insignificant chimp.

[EggsAckley]

Dear Ms. Dribble,

[doug from upland]

I suppose she detested Winston Churchill.

[StoneColdGOP]

I imagine she also despises that America saved her nation from ruin in WWII.

Ingrate bitch.

[StoneFury]

What you really loathe, Margaret Drabble, is that there isn't one damn thing you can do about it. Not one.

But you can always try. Bring it on.

[Sam Cree]

Probably she loathes America because, so far, we have been a pretty good demostration that the free market works infinitely better than socialism.

[Shaun_MD]

Harpie Queen sounds like a very sad and lonely woman.

[John Lenin]

I read this rant months ago, it is an old one.

[Rastus]

Margaret Drabble.

[El Conservador]

Margie, look at yourself:

[Restorer]

But there was something about those playfully grinning warplane faces that went beyond deception and distortion into the land of madness. A nation that can allow those faces to be painted as an image on its national aeroplanes has regressed into unimaginable irresponsibility. A nation that can paint those faces on death machines must be insane.

Uhh, hasn't she ever seen pictures of American (and as far as I know British) WWII warbirds?

[MEG33]

"My anti-Americanism has become almost uncontrollable. It has possessed me, like a disease. It rises up in my throat like acid reflux, that fashionable American sickness. I now loathe the United States and what it has done to Iraq and the rest of the helpless world."

Drivel...She needs her meds.

[Petronski]

And I detest your terribly effective straitjackets,
and I detest the taste of your Crayola crayons
which I use to write my columns on this padded wall...