![]() ![]() Even the Taliban insisted that its government would never commit "such cowardly acts."Īll ascribed a lack of courage - or in the Webster dictionary definition, "a shamefully excessive fear of danger" - to the killers who brazenly passed through airport security, coolly boarded four airliners, overpowered the crews and flew straight to their targets and to their own fiery graves. President Bush used it in his national address Tuesday night, and he was followed by Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton Senator Tom Daschle, the majority leader the American Muslim Political Coordination Council and the bishop at the Cathedral of St. The word "coward" (and the adverbial "cowardly") cropped up with great frequency last week. The men who carried out Tuesday's attacks may have been mass murderers, terrorists, fanatics - but cowards?
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