Maher has gone full Christopher Hitchens (RIP). Both are ostensibly lefties, but rabid for unprovoked "preemptive" US war against Bush II's 'Axis of Exil' fed to him by his puppeteers. This rhetoric accelerated N Korea's acquisition of nukes, as it will Iran's. Bertrand Russell, who was jailed as a pacifist for protesting WWI, then advocated preemptive US nuclear war against Russia before they could get the bomb. These three chaps follow the Iron Rule: Do unto others before they can do unto you.