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Saturday, February 25, 2012

Why Apologize to Afghanistan?

We have officially lost our minds.

The New York Times reports that President Obama has sent a formal letter of apology to Afghanistan’s ingrate president, Hamid Karzai, for the burning of Korans at a U.S. military base. The only upside of the apology is that it appears (based on the Times account) to be couched as coming personally from our blindly Islamophilic president — “I wish to express my deep regret for the reported incident. . . . I extend to you and the Afghani people my sincere apologies.” It is not couched as an apology from the American people, whose frame of mind will be outrage, not contrition, as the facts become more widely known.

The facts are that the Korans were seized at a jail because jihadists imprisoned there were using them not for prayer but to communicate incendiary messages. The soldiers dispatched to burn refuse from the jail were not the officials who had seized the books, had no idea they were burning Korans, and tried desperately to retrieve the books when the situation was brought to their attention.

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Time to GTFO of Afghanistan and the entire Middle East. If American soldiers are not there they will return to their prior practice of kinng each other. Drill our own oil and let them continue to wage barbaric wars against each other in the name of Allah . Oh but its not the oil in Afghanistan is it, its the poppies. Ameican soldiers dying to protect the drug lords opium supply. We are insane.

Anonymous said...

I wonder what the approved method of disposing of worn out Koran's is?