[ontap]

Do you want to be the person to explain to the parents of the dead soldier that the reason s/he died is so that this church could engage in a pointless and dangerous exercise?

This is a silly post...these bastards don't need another reason to kill our guys!!!!

[sniper63]

For every US serviceman killed in a Whatshitstan country, we should be burning 10,000 of these books at Ground Zero and rosting bratswurst over the flames...

[wideminded]

...these bastards don't need another reason to kill our guys!!!!

Apparently Petraeus thinks that they do. In a counterinsurgency battle, one tries to win the hearts and minds of the populace, to prevent them from joining or aiding the other side. Koran burning is not the way to go about this. Petraeus is not worried about the men already in the Taliban as much as the ones who might join them.