That, however, does not excuse an American citizen who knowingly does the same thing, nor the praise he is getting from people who ought to know better.
One wrong does not excuse another.
The fact that a single American exercising his God given right to exercise his own faith and to engage in free speech can cause such a turmoil in a place where thousands of Americans have given their lives to try to help these people enter the 20th Century, speaks volumes about why we should never have tried to rebuild that nation in the first place. We should have ousted the Taliban, left the country and then moved back in if they tried anything like that again.
Now we appease the same Taliban people by condemning our own citizens for exercising the right to be critical of the religion that led to the slaughter of over 3000 Americans on September 11, 2001.
We are appeasing our enemies. That has never worked in the past and will not work now. We are emboldening the Taliban by excusing the actions of Radical Muslims who kill indiscriminately using the pretext that some pastor 10,000 miles away may have dishonored their precious holy book.
I suspect that Terry Jones is going to be killed for his Koran burning in the near future. Just as the Danish Cartoonist was killed for simply drawing an unflattering picture of Mohamed and the Danish Filmmaker was killed for telling the truth about how women are treated in Islamic countries.
It is time to stop appeasing these people.
As one who has a family member in Afghan, another going next year, and one continuously in either Afghan or Iraq since the beginning of this war, I must disagree with you.
Pastor Jones might not be my brand of pastor, but he has done absolutely nothing wrong. This idea that "one wrong doesn't excuse another" is way out of proportion, too.
The afghans broke into a UN compound and murdered 7 people and are trying to murder more.
On the other side, we have a pastor who torched some paper and ink.
Can you begin to tell me what is equivalent about those 2 that would generate a "one wrong doesn't excuse another"?
How about Jimmy took Katie's chewing gum. Therefore, Ahmed murdered Rudolfo. Makes perfect sense to me...tit for tat and all that rot. /s
As Marlowe says, we need to kick ass one more time on the Taliban and call it "mission accomplished" with a threat of more kick ass if they P us O again.