I really dislike writing about the Coultergeist, but sometimes you just can’t help it. After her remarks about 9/11 widows and such, it seemed the good Annorexic had fallen off the map, but here she comes again with a few ever so pleasant remarks about John Edwards.

Speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference before an overflow crowd on Friday, Ms. Coulter said, “I was going to have a few comments on the other Democratic presidential candidate, John Edwards, but it turns out you have to go into rehab if you use the word ‘faggot,’ so I — so kind of an impasse, can’t really talk about Edwards.”

Well that’s classy with a capital C, isn’t it? She apologized, though. Sort of.

Ms. Coulter, asked for a reaction to the Republican criticism, said in an e-mail message: “C’mon, it was a joke. I would never insult gays by suggesting that they are like John Edwards. That would be mean.”

Coulter’s remarks were, as you could infer, denounced by quite a number of Republicans, including McCain and Mitt “For and against gay marriage” Romney. But there’s something to think about. A bit of a pattern with ol’ Ann. Let’s take a look back, shall we?

August 2006, about Hillary Clinton:

Q: Does Hillary Clinton have a good chance in 2008? What are her strengths and weaknesses? What did her reaction to your “Jersey girls” comments tell you about her as a potential candidate?

A: Good chance of what? Coming out of the closet? I’d say that’s about even money.

July 2006, about Al Gore:

MATTHEWS: Let me ask you about your private life. How do you know that Bill Clinton’s gay?

COULTER: He may not be gay, but Al Gore, total fag. No, I’m just kidding. As someone, no –

Matthews, of course, was talking about what she said a little earlier in July 2006 about Bill Clinton:

Ms. COULTER: I think that sort of rampant promiscuity does show some level of latent homosexuality.

DEUTSCH: OK, I think you need to say that again. That Bill Clinton, you think on some level, has — is a latent homosexual, is that what you’re saying?

Ms. COULTER: Yeah.

Now let’s think a little. Who is Ann Coulter? Well, she’s either 45 or 43 (depending on if you look at her Connecticut or D.C. license). She’s never been married, nor is she dating anyone, and she kinda looks like a man. And she also seems to call everyone gay and insist it’s just a “joke”.

Makes one wonder about the kind of personal life a middle aged single masculine-looking woman who constantly calls everyone “gay” might have.

I swear, sometimes I could just cry. A U.S. military official has come out with a statement concerning the Taliban’s prospects in Afghanistan, and… just read them for yourself.

“If the Taliban do not make it through this offensive, we feel that by next year they’ll have limited access to Afghanistan,” said Army Col. David B. Enyeart, deputy commander of Task Force Phoenix V, according the American Forces Press Bureau.

Okay, I’m starting to sound like a record on this point, but it’s 2007. The beginning of the end for the Taliban should have been somewhere in late 2002 or early 2003. Not only shouldn’t we be seeing the beginning of the end, we should already be past the end of the end. We’re in a mess in Iraq and people are gazing toward Iran, Afghanistan should have been over and done with by now.

“The Afghan National Army itself is growing not only in size, but it seems that they’re growing smarter in the way they do things,” he said. Enyeart added that Afghan troops are less dependent on support from the U.S. and coalition forces. Enyeart said that this shift in the nature of war makes him optimistic about the eventual outcome.

“Now it’s more of the Afghans want the war to be over with, and they want a secure state themselves,” he said. “This is a winnable war over here.”

Times like these it makes me wonder more and more about Iraq. In a nuclear analogy, Afghanistan is the Little Boy to Iraq’s Fat Man. If over five years after the invasion we’re just now getting to the point where the Afghans are starting to help, think about how long it might be before the three-way separated Iraq will do the same.