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And another:

"Americans can't admit that you need courage to do such a thing. For that might be misunderstood. The key thing is that we in America are convinced that it was blind, mad fanatics who didn't know what they were doing. But what if those perpetrators were right and we were not?"
-- Norman Mailer on the 911 attacks

[Perlstein]

Why do people keep on coming up with examples of people who say that the terrorists had physical courage, and construe that as approval of their "character or sincerity"? Physical courage is not character or sincerity. A kid who honors a friend's dare to jump of the proverbial bridge has physical courage; as does someone who gives up their life for a cause, even if the cause is pure evil. That was Maher's point--and is Maher really a leftist, by the way? As for Mailer, he's a tired old bat who no one has cared about for 20 years.