Posted on 09/06/2010 9:13:02 AM PDT by Kaslin
KABUL—The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan said the planned burning of Qurans on Sept. 11 by a Florida church could put the lives of American troops in danger and damage the war effort.
Gen. David Petraeus said the Taliban would exploit the demonstration for propaganda purposes, drumming up anger toward the U.S. and making it harder for allied troops to carry out their mission of protecting Afghan civilians.
"It could endanger troops and it could endanger the overall effort," Gen. Petraeus said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal. "It is precisely the kind of action the Taliban uses and could cause significant problems. Not just here, but everywhere in the world we are engaged with the Islamic community."
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Ah, General, you do your job. Let the idolators whine about their precious book. Sheesh, what PC wuss.
God what I wouldn’t do to somehow resurrect General Patton...
Same old story. Don’t make the bully angry, because he’ll just become a bigger bully.
“When did you become a moron?”
Thursday. You?
That the proposed actions of Jones' church, which counts just 50 members in its congregation, should reverberate so loudly across the world is itself a telling sign of tensions between the West and the Muslim world, as well as what some see as a growing distrust of Islam in the United States.
"a telling sign of tensions between the West and the Muslim world..."
What a crock. It's a telling sign that they will come after us, not that it is somehow a two way street and we are going to submit to them or else...the same policy they have had for a thousand years. Time to tell them to STFU. How many bibles, flags and AMERICANS have they burned and/or killed abroad and here at home?
This is the same kind of thinking that leads our MSM into saying things like we share the blame in 9/11 because of Bush policies. More BS. Their philosophy is simple...they want to keeeeeel us.
The sooner the appeasers catch on to this the sooner we an start protecting ourselves.
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[I think the poster was asking for “rationalizing” the dumb move by this Church. It seems like a pathetic stunt to gain some name recognition.]
I’m glad someone finally said it. Inside many clergy members there is a cheap politician fighting to get out.
I think Obama ordered him to make this statement.
Good!
I served in the military WWII missing the invasion to be of Japan by a couple of months. Lost my brother on Okinawa. I never had the feeling that the generals’ first concerns were my safety.I did trust in them to make my duties as no more difficult than needed. As to muslim’s anger against burnining the koran I’m not much one way or another. I do believe they wouldn’t hesitate to defile other religion’s works if they had more control.
....and what is the Ground Zero Mosque doing to morale over there?
What a joke - they were lying, cheating and beheading yesterday. And now he’s afraid they’re going to ...get worse with their lying, cheating and beheading?
If only the Florida church wouldn’t burn the korans, the muslims wouldn’t hate us.
This faux “minister” appears to have neither love of God nor fear of God. Has he ever heard the Lord’s Prayer, particularly the “. . and lead us not into temptation and deliver us from evil . . “??
His contemplated small-minded, asinine act will only engender hate from the Muslim world, fueled amplified, and disseminated in video applications by the radical elements in Islam.
It is, in fact, exactly what the radicals and all the enemies of America want. It has the core ingredients to destroy what our men and women in Iraq, Afghanistan, have worked for—and indeed what many have given their lives for.
It will be used to rationalize 9/11. It has assuredly the potential to set-back, if not destroy, all that the Western countries have done throughout the world in the war against terror. It will, in carefully nurtured media applications, unite millions against Western countries.
Petraeus is attempting a task on a par with herding cats. It’s based on the good-Moose bad-Moose principle that Bush attempted to foster. I ultimately don’t feel very optimistic about its chances, and especially since Obama has fixed a date that he is getting out of Dodge, but if this church torpedoes precarious attempts to establish diplomacy with Moose then it may well have blood on its hands.
so you subscribe the the "two wrongs make a right" theory of personal conduct?
A bunch of us had an interesting discussion about this last night.
Bottom line from four different Christians with differing personal faiths...we all agree if you believe Jesus calls us to spread his Word to those who haven't heard then this "pastor" is violating that directive by alienating all of the Muslims and others may not be Muslim but find this whole fiasco distasteful.
Just our $.02.
Nope.
Our local attorneys were told to stay home due to concerns for their safety. The RSO has shut down all movement and we are sitting on our thumbs for at least today...maybe all the way up to the 12th. (We're 8 hours ahead so when this douchenozzle is starting his little bonfire it will the the evening of the 11th/;early morning of the 12th and we fully expect all sorts of chaos here if this actually goes down.)
The Pastor has clearly missed the whole "turn the other cheek" thingy...
Really...how about your best friend intentionally pisses all over something you revere?
Are you saying that wouldn't strain the relationship?
And if you re-read what I said I never used the word "shatter."
Regards
So what if you didn’t use the word “shatter?” Are you so rigid you can’t stand the use of a different adjective than you selected? Obviously so since you come up with the equally ridiculous analogy of ‘best friends.’ My point stands untouched by your nonsense logic.
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