I know I’ve been consistent on this issue all along. I’ve supported people’s right to burn a flag, though I think they’re jackasses. The same here, I support Pastor Jone’s right to burn a Koran though I think he’s a jackass. I wish both of these things would not happen, but I would not stop people from doing it. No need to put our troops in any more danger than they have to be. What Pastor Jones did by burning the Koran, made our troops less safe. That’s just a plain fact.
What bothers me the most in this whole thing is the chilling words of Senator Graham. “Free speech is a great idea, but we’re at war”. It’s not an idea Senator Graham. It’s a natural right given to us by our creator. This is one of the worst aspects of a free society going to war. The possibility of suppressing our rights and freedoms may be at stake in the name of “security”. It’s funny, all of these leftist pinkos complained about the Patriot Act where the gubmint was going to monitor our phone calls and look at what library books we checked out. That was all malarkey. Yet now when Senators hint at a true natural right being supressed, the left says nothing. Oh, yeah. Forgot, Obama’s President....
If the act of one lone firestarter can jeopardize the safety of all of our troops in Afghanistan, then what is the purpose of our remaining in that hell hole? Other than to prop up an Islamic government that executes converts to Christiany and bans the possession of Bibles and is instituting the same sharia laws that the Taliban enforced before we got there, what in God's name are we trying to accomplish there? Is it worth the life of one more soldier?
How do you know this? Aren't they already in a full fire zone? Are they less competent because a koran was burned? Are the enemies more capable? Angrier? More intent on killing?
I'm not so sure. It makes for good PR for Petraeus say it in so far as it makes 0bama happy, but I'm not so sure it's factually correct. I have my doubts.
And if it is true, such as people we are training turning on us and killing our troops, such as the two troops that were killed, then it seems that this traitorous behavior was inherent in the situation and was waiting for any convenient trigger. The pastor was just a handy dupe.
The people responsible for putting our troops into that situation are responsible for that, not the pastor.
That's just plain BS.
By that token, anyone who says anything bad about Islam here at FR, makes our troops less safe.
Being on the same planet with moslems makes everyone "less safe".
Those sand rats don't need an excuse to act like the savages they are, it comes naturally.