http://www.politico.com/story/2013/04/bill-maher-since-911-90367.html?hp=r12
Bill Maher said Friday that America had “grown up a bit” and were “more stoic” in their reaction to the Boston Marathon bombings compared to the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorists attacks.“It seems to me that the reaction to this horrific crime this week was so different than 9/11. Now obviously not as many people died by far, but it seemed like America had grown up a bit. It seemed like we were a lot more stoic, we didn’t overreact,” the liberal comic said on his HBO show “Real Time.”
Maher’s program was aired as developments were still unfolding in Boston, before authorities eventually apprehended Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, who is one of the two suspects in the case. The other, his older brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, was killed early Friday morning police pursuit just outside of Boston.Their motives remain unclear, including whether they acted politically. Authorities have said they are Muslim and of Chechen ethnicity.But Maher said that they didn’t quite seem to have the “balls” of more radicalized extremists abroad.
how do you measure "balls" the extent you will go to get yourself dead? love Maher, but he does say some controversial things on boh sides of logic, overall he generally has his points.
“It seems like Americanized terrorists don’t quite have the balls of the originals,” Maher said.He then wondered whether America should respond to terrorist attacks in the same way the Israelis do.“When the [Israelis] have an event, they don’t build a monument to it. It’s like it never happened,” Maher said. “And they clean it up and the next day the thing is open for business and it’s like, ‘You didn’t touch us.’”
if you think about it America pretty much does exactly that, the hindering mostly comes from the right wing always something that they can bitch about pro or con mostly con they are a negative bunch of coots. remember all the doomsday of America rhetoric we were subjected to during this past election cycle?
as to the originals, i think more ramifications are know now and a lot of bandwagon riders as oppose to real Kamikaze types come with the sense of America they grew up in that now is a disappointment but those people are not usally aware completely of why and what they hate and if they really do hate it if they had a clue what it was.