After reading your first post, I see why people are annoyed with you.
You complain about being called a coward, a terrorist sympathizer, etc. and proceed to call your FR friends subterranean morons.
Gen Petraeaus was a big disappointment to me, trying to scare us with the idea that such acts might make the muslims mad and be a danger to our troops.
Duh, general, I like you, but if you think one preacher burning the Koran is gonna make a difference to people who hate us now, and who hated us before 9-11, well, you’re not as smart as I thought you were.
The general needs to go back and read the first sentence of his oath. He swore to defend the constitution not whine about the danger free speech creates for his troops.
My solution would be to give them 12 hours to evacuate Mecca and don’t plan on returning without a good radiation suit for at least 50,000 years.
I've got to believe that he was prompted on that from stateside. It was disappointing that he didn't resign rather than comply. Although he is supposedly the "brains" behind counterinsurgency...