Is Bill Maher the Jane Fonda of the Iraq War?

摘要

I don't watch the Bill Maher show on HBO. I haven't thought much about him since he had a show on ABC and implied that the 9/11 attackers were courageous for flying hijacked planes into buildings and killing 3,000 people. At the same time, Maher said that the U.S. was cowardly for attacking terrorist bases in Afghanistan by launching cruise missiles from ships at sea. He is supposed to be a comedian but also tries to come across as someone who makes serious and thoughtful points about political issues. We had to take another look at Maher because after he lost his ABC show he was picked up by Time Warner's HBO, where he recently declared that the U.S. was facing a military recruiting crisis because we had already picked enough "low-lying Lynndie England fruit," a reference to the soldier on trial for abusing Iraqi prisoners, and were in need of "warm bodies" for the front lines.