--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In a message dated 3/11/2004 6:16:55 PM Eastern > Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > True as far as it goes, but I believe that he > called > > _American_ soldiers cowards instead. That was not > > exactly okay. > > > > > > a serious charge if true. can you document
>From memory, he compared the hijackers favorably (in terms of courage) to people who launch cruise missiles from thousands of feet. The leftist impulse to defend him is not one that I understand, or care to. Note that I don't really care. There was no censorship there, and the fact that people keep claiming that what happened to Maher is a sign of Ashcroft's fascism is a sign of how pathetically weak those claims actually are. In fact I would argue that cowardly is a fairly accurate depiction of many of the hijackers. Grabbing a defenseless stewardess and threatening to cut her throat unless the pilot gives up control of the aircraft (what seems to have happened, from what little we know) does not meet any definition of courage of which I am aware. Dying is easy. Dying bravely - that's harder. The hijackers were able to die, but not, I think, with courage. ===== Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Freedom is not free" http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what you�re looking for faster http://search.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
