Bill Maher: U.S. Not Morally Equivalent to ISIS, But We ‘Burn People Alive from the Air’

In the Overtime segment of his show last night, Bill Maher took a viewer question on Fox News’controversial decision to post the entirety of ISIS’ latest video. Amy Holmes, host for TheBlaze (one of the other media outlets to post the entire ISIS video) admitted she’s conflicted, because while posting it is “very disrespectful to the pilot and to his family,” sometimes people just need to “see the reality” of what ISIS does.

Johann Hari brought up the brutality from nations supported by the United States and said lots of jihadist actions result from U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. And, he said, “the more we show ourselves to be good or loving or decent people,” the less there will be.

Maher didn’t think showing the ISIS video is necessary, and then remarked upon how “America has also burned people alive from the air.” And while he acknowledged that collateral damage from drone strikes is different from deliberately burning a man alive and “we’re not the moral equivalent of ISIS,” Maher said the U.S. isn’t “guilt-free” when it comes to horrible acts.

Watch the video below, via HBO:

http://youtu.be/dFY9dz7g7iA