Were I CIC, this would be my reply:
“They are United States Military, you Cretin. It may rankle you to have a BOOK burned - but it is NOT a crime.
You, on the other hand, do have the murders of our soldiers in custody and they will be tried, right?
The ONLY thing we now need to do to our soldiers is bring them home - EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THEM. Not one soldier left in that country. Go back to the stone age.
THEY SAVED YOUR SORRY ASS, PUT YOU ON WHAT YOU HAVE MADE YOUR THRONE. NOW GO BACK TO RULE UNDER THE TALIBAN. See how long you strut around in your fine robes.
We can’t - WON”T - worry about your country anymore. Just be sure none of your barbarians do one more thing against even one American or your country, starting with you, will become glass.”
Our collaborating, bowing, scraping, apologizes, CIC is what causes this brazenness. This can be laid directly on his doorstep - which should not be, btw, the WH.
Since Obama took over the management of the Afghan War, 37 months ago, 1,836 Coalition troops have been killed. During the 87 months under the Bush Administration, 1,069 military were killed.
During the election campaign Obama was preaching that we weren’t focusing enough effort on the Afghan War and he bragged that he would.
I think he NOW is trying to get out of this war before his Administration is responsible for the deaths of TWICE as many Coalition troops in Afghanistan as was Bush. At the historic monthly average of fifty Coalition troop deaths under Obama, he has six months to get out, longer if he lessen their combat exposure.
The election day is eight months away.