I love that actor/comedian Larry Miller is writing hawkish columns for The Weekly Standard. I haven’t a clue why this pleases me so much, and yet I feel so at peace.

Here’s a bit from his latest column, “Won’t You Come Home, John Walker?”:

Of course, many Americans on the call-in shows are rationalizing what he did. One mental giant reflected, ‘Let’s not judge him too quickly. I did some wild things when I was nineteen, too.’ Like what, hack off feet in Sierra Leone? The Taliban was not a search for self. (‘Gee, I don’t know, Dad, maybe college, maybe hitch around Europe for a while. Hey, wait a minute. How about the Taliban?’) There are still plenty of harmless ways to make a pointless gesture. Was the Peace Corps full up? (By the way, do we still have a Peace Corps? If so, where? More importantly, why?)

Okay, everyone, from the top again, with feeling: The Taliban was a death cult, a collection of devils who skinned their own alive to maintain fear, who blasphemed every time they used the word “God,” whose least horrible accomplishment was the vicious way they treated their women. They were a bloodlust burrito wrapped in heat and hate, so joining them wasn’t a wacky alternative to interning for Amnesty International; it was evil.

Thank you. We’ll be here all week.

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