Saturday, 15 September 2001 : "Clancy on Islam"

...CNN indulged in the stunt of interviewing novelist Tom Clancy simply because he'd written a thriller about a similar attack. I was braced for the worst -- Clancy is, after all, a wannabe Rambo -- but he launched into a monologue about how Islam is a religion of love, like Christianity and Judaism, and we shouldn't believe that the actions of a few madmen actually represent such a religion. "My God," I told my wife. "Tom Clancy has become the voice of reason."