Posted on 04/03/2011 9:55:34 AM PDT by marthemaria
Best bet would be to totally leave. Relegate Afghanistan to the same status as North Korea; a forbidden-zone. Then inform them that one just one ... act of violent behavior against the U.S. or it's Citizens and the entire so called “Nation of Afghanistan” will cease to exist, figuratively and literally.
Is Terry Jones the pastor who burned the Koran? Is he back or is it was another “preacher” who wanted the wall-to-wall media attention? Will he get a new car?
>>De Mistura said the violence, in a normally peaceful city, had caught ill-prepared Afghan police by surprise, and the gurkhas who are the next layer of security for the United Nations could not open fire because they are forbidden to shoot into crowds that contain civilians.<<
It must really suck to be in the midst of a terrorist attack before you realize for the first time that terrorists do not wear uniforms and look exactly like a civilian with a knife and he’s going to kill you.
“An angry mob...ripped out the door of a bunker...”
Sounds like the UN had themselves a pretty poor bunker.
Burning a book is mere posturing. It doesn’t destroy the contents, the ideas, not in these days of millions of copies.
If Jones wanted to condemn the Koran in his webcast, all he had to do was read the hateful, murderous, self-serving passages.
The guilt of murder is on the Afghan mob, and Jones had a free speech right to burn the Koran.
But if you choose to throw pebbles at a rabid dog, you had better be sure it will bite you and not someone else.
In other words, Jones should have gone to Kabul, done his little speech and conflagration, and taken martyrdom upon himself.
I really don’t see the point of burning the book. People can do as they please but I can’t find anything in the bible that says we should go out of our way to insult another religion. It just seems kind of pointless.
I’ve just got an uneasy feeling that Jones is Fred Phelps 2.0 edition.
Well when Jones starts protesting funerals of our fallen servicemen, get back to me.
“The reality is that our gurkhas are never going to shoot at civilians, so the demonstration became an entry point, making it gradually impossible for our own gurkhas, our own security to intervene.”
So the point is that anyone using gurkhas for security should leave.
Here's the problem.
This is a very different philosophy than what we saw with the Ghurkas we worked with in Iraq. Those guys were absolutely ruthless.
They all looked like little rolly-polly guys who wouldn’t hurt a flea. But when the shooting started they adopted a “take no prisoners” philosophy. They were bad to the bone.
I guess times have changed.
Yes, it’s horrific. But if we can just get muslims killing other muslims ala Egypt and Libya etc, it’s a win-win. Any muslim wants to off another muslim I say go right ahead! Make my day!
****but I can’t find anything in the bible that says we should go out of our way to insult another religion. It just seems kind of pointless.****
And yet, St Paul got the worshipers of DIANA of the EPHESIANS in quite a tizzy! Especially the makers of “I visited the Shrine of DIANA” souviner hawkers.
And obama and Petreus are condemning the Pastor?
Can we at least say a bad word about these savages?
Or is that verboten too?
Islam- it’s a religion of peace.
.000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001% of the time.
From my recollection, he was educating people as to what was in the Koran, even to the point of putting up billboards denouncing Islam, and an online video series exposing Islam as the cesspool it is.
“But if we can just get muslims killing other muslims ala Egypt and Libya etc, it’s a win-win.”
As we are seeing in Egypt and Libya, when that happens, the most ruthless and savage Muslims usually come out on top. I don’t think that’s a long-term solution.
7th century style religious insanity, pure and simple.
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