"As an Irish-Catholic kid in the 1980s, I remember being disgusted with the thugs and the terrorists in the [Irish Republican Army] and I don't remember anyone who was Irish-American saying to Tom Clancy after 'Patriot Games': 'How dare you portray people in the IRA for what they were, a bunch of thugs and terrorists.' What drives me nuts is people like [the Council on American-Islamic Relations] who, any time somebody in fiction or on TV has a villain who happens to portray what is going on in the world today — Islamic radicals who embrace a cult of death and are running around killing innocent women and children — they get upset about it." -- novelist Vince Flynn in the [1] Washington Times (thanks to [2] Hot Air)