Ann Coulter vs. Bill Kristol: Beginnings of a Conservative Schism?

Hmm..I completely agree with your 'wrap it up' point at the end about the importance of the discussion, but still reject that anything Ann Coulter says should receive this kind of analysis. Real debate is immensely important; nothing that woman says is constructive or sincere. I would really like the media to collectively turn its back on her now. Can we make that happen, please?

why would anyone listen to someone who almost sparked a riot at canadian college campus. hundreds of protestors assembled against the appearance of ann coulter and what she had to say. it got so intense, it was on the verge of a riot. so tell me, why would anyone listen to anything that person has to say?

i think ann coulter should resign. she should resign from the public eye. she and her conservative counterparts including limbaugh, palin, beck, dobbs, are making fortunes with all the slanderous propaganda, against anyone who doesn't call themselves conservatives. with all their mis-informed, outdated, one-sided, biased information, why would anyone listen to a word they say. i would like to see a face-to-face debate between kristol and coulter. i think kristol is an intelligent, well informed authority, and ann coulter will come across as someone who is wise-cracking and disrespecting. i don't pay attention to anything ann coulter has to say, let alone get one of her books.

Parodying The Godfather, "Our true motives in Afghanistan have yet to be revealed!" I contend the secret is mineral resources which the country has not been able to exploit. Was this not Russia's interest in the country? Note that our efforts in Iraq might easily be traced to the renewed efforts to produce oil and natural gas from the southern regions hitherto undeveloped but not undiscovered. Administrator Bremer had as a high priority the survey of the region for potential energy production. Time will tell. We can only hope the sacrifice in money, life and international standing will be worth it.

Rand Paul is not "poised" to become a Senator. He is a candidate with outdated and quite frankly, racist economic and political views, presenting himself as something "new". I predict he falls in flames come Election Day.

i just finished reading Ann Coulters article from july 7th and it is spot on accurate in my opinion , you have to take into account that she uses subtle jibes from past liberal dogmas to make her point , when we went into Iraq in 03 after exhaustive UN debate i immediately saw the strategic logic to the plan , all one need do is look at a map of the middle east to see the central location in the muslim world , it is a perfect place to draw out the terrorists to kill them in the open on muslim soil and not over here on our subways and buses . Yes , mistakes were made in hindsight , but there again we never had a instruction manual on just what to do following a attack like we had on 9/11 and given the middle class backgrounds of the 19 terroists who did this , it was obvious we had our work cut out for us , and i might add in the rest of the Bush term we never were attacked again , he must have been doing something right

Technically, we won the war in Afghanistan in late 2001, when Bush used B-52s, US Army and SF, routing the Taliban, and capturing the capital. Subsequently, we installed a friendly Govt. there. War won. I read so many comments where people do not even realize this - such is the incredible power of govt. propaganda. We had a perfect opportunity to leave, and announce at the same time we would continue to work with the friendly govts. in Pakistan and Afghanistan to hunt down AQ guys. Unfortunately, the neocons, as they always do, moved the goalpost. We stayed too long, the enemy, feeding off of occupation resentment, slowly got stronger. We can't keep making the same mistakes. It's bleeding us white, we all know the numbers $13T in debt and so on. We have to clean this mess us as fast as possible.

VERY SAD so many can't seem to see thru Coulters emotional rants! THAT lack of 'thinking' unfortunately is a GIFT to the Libs

Look alot of Conservatives were for Bush's war till millions of us realized that 9/11 & these wars are for another nation's pleasures, that runs our State Dept & our Politicians Coffers so they can get elected & elected....& "Both" parties spread their legs for this demoralized, meddling, & deceptive house of Horror, knowing full well that it would be American Blood, Sweat & Wages that would be lost for the Greed of the Pay Master....
Oh! Just in case you are wondering... this Too is totally Unconstitutional as it is Treason on the part of ANY nation to dominate influence in the State Dept. in this deceitful way & it's been going on since the days Johnson on Up.

Ann Coulter is finally almost correct, but for the wrong reasons. We should not be still be in Afghanistan, we should have left 3 months after invading to depose the Taliban. She should have taken this view because is is correct, not because 9 years after invading, a liberal president has decided incorrectly to increase troops . It sure took a long time for her to realize this. We will have to stay in Afghanistan for 30 years, if we want to make sure that Al-Queda does not use Afghanistan for a base of operations. My guess is that Al-Queda is not welcome in Afghanistan any more .