Evangelist: Florida pastor 'agreed in principle' not to burn Qurans
Earlier this week, the top U.S. military commander in Afghanistan, Gen. David Petraeus, warned that the plan "could cause significant problems" for American troops overseas.
In an interview airing later Wednesday on “NBC Nightly News,” Gen. David Petraeus warned that video of the demonstration would be a propaganda gift for anti-U.S. “extremists.”
“We’re concerned that the images from the burning of a Quran would be used in the same way that extremists used images from Abu Ghraib — that they would in a sense be indelible,” Petraeus told NBC’s Brian Williams. “They would be used by those who wish us ill, to incite violence and to enflame public opinion against us and against our mission here in Afghanistan, as well as our missions undoubtedly around the world.”
“Petraeus is a fool. I knew that from the time he issued a call for the pastor in FL to refrain from burning the Koran claiming it would cost American lives.”
Petraeus is no fool. He was simply managing his career. To advance in the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations it was necessary to tow the party line which is Islam is the religion of peace. Muslim immigration accelerated under Bush, the president who held the hand of the Saudi prince after 9/11, and has continued to advance under Barack Obama who was educated as a Muslim in Indonesia.
Petraeus is a political animal playing the game. His public pronouncements now are all about currying favor with the media, the intellectual elites, and the liberal politicians who can arrange lucrative book deals, board memberships, speaking engagements, and consulting contracts. In his world, having been forced to resign in humiliation, he can only eat the crumbs off the table by prostituting himself.
This man is an opportunist, not a patriot.
Petraeus is a traitor.