Posted on 09/17/2010 6:10:32 AM PDT by ExGeeEye
This letter is about as well thought out as piece of dirt.
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If one feels moved to burn the Koran, I recommend reading at least a few passages out loud to the widest possible audience first.
http://joytiz.com/2010/just-read-it/
You are entirely within your COTUS 1A right to say so.
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and finally,
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I certainly cannot imagine the commanders during WWII pleading with private citizens not to burn copies of Mein Kampf for fear of offending Hitler.
Fight like Vietnam, finish like Vietnam.
Win hearts and minds?
Two rounds in the heart, one in the mind, and Win!
Gee, I don't suppose you would share with us your well-reasoned and enlightened opinion on how we should [have] responded to the blackmail and threats by Islamo-Fascists and the cowardly "Submissive" responses by Patreus and Dear Leader?
You’ve heard it said that our Constitution was never supposed to be a suicide pact.
The idea is that twisted or contrived logic can always be found such that the Constitution is used against itself, and that we should recognize and prevent this from happening.
This is what the idea of koran burning does. First—let’s get real. Nobody really feels that passionate about burning a koran. It just doesn’t have that kind of meaning or impact, not to a sincere patriotic American.
Think of it this way. Nothing man can write on paper or devise in his mind can ever match the real world. Whether it’s a poem, a mathematical equation, a piece of fiction or a system of laws. Just ask Robert Burns or Werner Heisenberg. Or the Founding Fathers. It’s that same old gap separating theory from reality.
So when this gap is encountered, our job is to use common sense. I’ll say it again—there is no genuine patriot who thinks burning a koran is worth the life of American troops.
Politically we have the right to burn the Koran, but theologically we do not. I was quite upset that Petraeus was ordered to make the request to not burn it but not surprised given his CIC.
A general knowingly sends his soldiers into harms way so his request and the wording to keep them safe is proof enough he was ordered to say this and probably had to for the President of Afghanistan, too.
It was no doubt disheartening to our soldiers and as a recruit mom it angers me and scares me about those who follow the wrong orders
We could simply fight wars the way we’ve always done, and win.
Not pretend we care so much about burning korans. Nobody really cares about it, or really wants to do it.
Actually, there's nothing that I would not put past 0bama if it would further his undermining of the USA as it has existed for 200 plus years. The man is a clear and present danger to our way of life. Period.
Do you somehow believe that our troops are over there on some sort of "peace keeping" mission, and that provoking the enemy will bring them from a state of non-aggression to one of full aggression? Like they've been holding back all this time?
You, sir, are an idiot.
Great letter and right on the mark.
I think we should fight the way General Patton fought.
But winning wars is one thing, and burning korans is something entirely different.
Common sense will tell us where the idiocy lies.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
I agree with the writer the General needs to do his Job and get more Ammo if he needs it,His Duty is to Kill the enemy.
Now we are in agreement. And to get to where we once again, if ever, have generals like Patton there needs to happen a sea change in Washington. It could happen, but as we know even Patton eventually got throttled back.
If Patton had served under the first Roosevelt presidency I suspect the 20th century would have had an entirely different outcome.
If Patton were here today he would kick the koran burners back to their mommies basement.
Of all people, Patton would understand the stupidity of “koran burning.”
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