Burning the koran would seem to stifle his effort as it gives the locals mores reasons to take the wrong side.
But, hey, help your self. Freedom of speech and right to taunt and all that. If my son was in Afghan I'd be kicking some butt on the first match I see lit.
Do you often show up at Flag burnings and kick butt? Just asking.
He needs to convince them?
Maybe we should give them U.S. dollars...How about a new cars? Free trips to Disneyland?
How long do we have to kiss these people's asses and talk sweet to them? Have they not figured out murdering terrorist are a bad thing?
“Patreaus is trying to convince the locals not to support the Taliban. The more locals who don’t supoport the Taliban, the fewer US troops need to patrol and guard roads and get killed.”
All the more reason to get out of Afghanistan now as nation building in the “cesspool of Afghanistan” is a fruitless cause. Our military’s purpose used to be kill combatants and destroy targets. Now we have become a sort of “meals on wheels” and God help us if we don’t accept their “Allah”.