Tell that to the Rangers who were butchered and dragged through the streets in Somalia. Or to the families of the 58,000 names on The Wall. The US military has paid its dues. Maher is pathetic.
It would plainly be absurd to accuse the pilots of fighters and bombers of cowardice. Anyone who's ever read a history of aerial warfare knows that the guys in the aircraft faced often horrific risks.
The 8th Air Force, for instance...ye gods, those guys must have been brave! There they were, flying so high that the temperature hovered around 40 below, firing guns out of the open windows of their airplanes. Incredible. And a huge percentage of them never made it back.
But one could reasonably point out that America's practice of aerial warfare in some cases has been rather cowardly. Bush himself made the point recently, when he described firing missiles at tents and hitting camels. In its desperate desire to minimize casualties, our military has used tactics designed to deliver death from above, with minimal risk to our own forces. These methods are precisely the least likely to be effective against a Saddam Hussein, but our leaders don't dare use anything else. Instead, they drop bombs that, as often as not, end up killing a few civilians. Surely it's not unreasonable to see a certain cowardice in this.