"Gus" wrote in message
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Since a coward is one who turns tail and runs, neither flying airplanes
into buildings nor lobbing cruise missiles is cowardly on the surface.

Sure, but Mahar was reflecting on the relative courage of somebody sitting
in an easy chair, pushing buttons and killing people thousands of miles
away, and then calling people who flew airplanes into buildings, knowing
they would die, "cowards." Calling them cowards is standing the truth on its
head.

And Mahar was far from the only one who recognized it. It's just that he's
the most pugnacious of the lot, and the most inclined to call things as he
sees them, political correctness be damned.

But in my opinion, the killing of innocent people in pursuit of a goal
is more cowardly than killing the guilty. And killing the innocent is
exactly what terrorists do.

Yeah. It appears we've killed something like 30,000 of them ourselves,
according to Dubya. But, of course, those were "oops" killings...

Mahar's strategy is to put the terrorists on a higher plane than our
government
for his own political purposes.

I doubt if Mahar had a strategy, or a political purpose. He has a sharp eye
for bull****, and calling the terrorists "cowards" was a particularly ripe
piece of it.

That's all that was going on there, Gus. It probably wasn't something that
was considered much. That isn't Mahar's style. He speaks what's on his mind,
and it gets him into a lot of trouble. g

He also makes us uncomfortable with a lot of things he says. Brutal truths
have a way of doing that.

--
Ed Huntress