The fact that a single American exercising his God given right to exercise his own faith and to engage in free speech can cause such a turmoil in a place where thousands of Americans have given their lives to try to help these people enter the 20th Century, speaks volumes about why we should never have tried to rebuild that nation in the first place. We should have ousted the Taliban, left the country and then moved back in if they tried anything like that again.
Now we appease the same Taliban people by condemning our own citizens for exercising the right to be critical of the religion that led to the slaughter of over 3000 Americans on September 11, 2001.
We are appeasing our enemies. That has never worked in the past and will not work now. We are emboldening the Taliban by excusing the actions of Radical Muslims who kill indiscriminately using the pretext that some pastor 10,000 miles away may have dishonored their precious holy book.
I suspect that Terry Jones is going to be killed for his Koran burning in the near future. Just as the Danish Cartoonist was killed for simply drawing an unflattering picture of Mohamed and the Danish Filmmaker was killed for telling the truth about how women are treated in Islamic countries.
It is time to stop appeasing these people.
They have to do with the individual responsibility of an individual American to behave responsibly.
I've made that point repeatedly and whether or not it is understood is no longer up to me. It's up to those who distort the actual words I've said to try to get the point I have been making.