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.
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.
Think about it. This argument is a very strong one—that a true patriot would never really want to burn a Koran. It’s strong enough that none of you who might have a hidden agenda would want to risk your agenda by trying to argue it.
Even the hot-tempered patriots (which some of you might be), those who run for the matches on impulse, would not press the issue when they realize it’s a strategic setback and kills troops.
So the question is, what would Saul Alinsky advise his followers to do when they encounter an argument like this?
I’ll tell you—he would have no answer. Because the same thing applies to Alinsky’s stupid little rules that applies to anything man comes up with, as I explained in post #10.
The answer is to trust in God to lead the way, as our founding fathers did and as Americans have traditionally done. As we did at Yorktown in 1781 and at Normandy in 1944. Because only God can get us out of the mess we put ourselves into.