An Open Letter to Gen. Petraeus

Petraeus talked about suspending constitutional rights, it doesn't matter if he was talking about one instance or a 1000. As for burning the Koran I see a need for it, especially since our leaders have run like rabbits from the muslims on the subject. If everyone had left well enough alone, let the guy do his bragging and shouting and not made a big deal out of it, it would have gone away, no one would have trashed our rights and no Korans would have burned. As it turned out the MSM and the government both made a big deal out of it, at the same time affirming the 1st amendment rights of muslim terrorists to build on GZ.

Burning Korans in itself doesn't matter, telling us we can't, or shouldn't, and cowering in their holes does matter.

Save your breath(or fingers) on an answer. You won't convince me I am wrong and you won't convince me that our leaders, both military and govermental, didn't act out of cowardice.

Of course nobody should cower in holes, and of course the government and military leadership is full of cowards.

All I’m saying is I don’t see any strategic advantage in burning korans. If I’m wrong, I’ll accept it. But nobody has explained what the advantage is. Not once.

I didn’t really care about this issue, until I realized the left was trying to use it against us by encouraging hotheads to burn korans and then look stupid.

@reasonisfaith: (No, it’s the opposite.) You have no argument. Your merely have an assertion about what a true patriot would do - as if you had any insight. A patriot is determined by his values. So what would a true AMERICAN patriot value? Non-offense, or freedom? Appeasement of an enemy during a time of war, or defeating him quickly by all means necessary? Obeying his enemy’s command to not burn enemy texts, or burning them in defiance?

You believe that freedom is free - oh yes you do! The cost of burning books is too high for you, so you ‘argue’ against it. The cost of defying our enemy is too high for you, so you ‘argue’ against it. The cost of our military risking harm for our freedom is too high for you, so you ‘argue’ against it. The cost of man cleaning up “the mess we put ourselves into” is too high for you, so you ‘argue’ against it. You don’t believe in the concept of paying even when someone else offers to. For that, you feel superior.

Now ask yourself the cost of your cost-saving. (For a full invoice, see any Muslim nation.) American citizens in FL were pressured by a unaminous world to forsake their rights, and they did; the precedent set is that our enemy’s sensitivity trumps our natural and constitutional rights. What’s the price on that? We’ll know when he figures out that he now controls the entirety of the world - military, government, media and citizens. We’ll know when we add up his next set of demands and hit “Equals”.

Our most revered modern general cited harm to our military as the reason We the People should forsake our rights; the precedents are that cowardice is to be our military’s foremost strategy, that their “mission” is something other than overcoming danger on behalf of their homeland’s freedom, and that their role now is to play hostage to any gang of terrorists who wants to issue a ransom demand. What’s the price? Read the ransom note. And get a price-check from your neighbors if our “brave” military ever decides it’s safer to attack US in oppression of our rights, than to face the enemy in defense of them.

Several talking-heads and many online posters claim that people like Terry Jones should be JAILED for offending our noble and peaceful enemy and thereby putting our precious little troopies in big bad icky old peril. But YOU aren’t LIKE Terry Jones, so why should you pay a price? You’ll find out when the jailers have finished coming for the Catholics.

EVERY member of the armed services should be more willing to die - and to kill! - for freedom than for appeasement. Ask yourself which they are dying for now.

EVERY true Western patriot should be more willing to burn the Koran in defiance of the enemy and cowardice, than for whatever reason YOU choose to ascribe to them so that you can avoid seeing the real one. Ask yourself whether you will choose to keep missing it.

Chuck
www.BurnTheKoranForFreedom.com

You must be a war strategy genius.

Maybe we should open up a new government agency, where all they do is burn korans.

We could cut the defense budget in half, and give the rest of it to the Burn the Koran Department.

Alqada would run in terror. Our enemies would surrender.

Great plan.