Aside from the pertinet arguments that "buring books leads to burning people" and it serves no useful purpose to poke a wasps' nest can anybody provide any other good reasons NOT to burn the Koran?
The fact that you think there need to be reasons besides those two says a lot about you, DH. But nothing I didn't already know.
Well said.
Yeah, well said if you completely miss the point of why they are denouncing it, and are a big fan of
tu quoque arguments.
There is also a difference between an average Joe condemning something because they find it distasteful, and the president of the USA condemning something protected in a democratic nation because of political tension and an implied sense of being held to ransom by ultra-sensitive enemies of democracy.
Yeah, but the POTUS publicly condemning something is not a ban. Period.
I don't think Obama and all the self-loathing liberal pansies that are clutching their pearls to their chest got that memo.
hmm obviously you never got the memo
The President has to worry about the troops in Afghanistan and Iraq, especially when his leading Commanding General comes out and asks the pastor to stop the event
NO U!
So what you’re saying is we should appease and pander to religious extremists?
The soldiers out there are fighting for their country. They are fighting for the right of some backwater Pastor to burn books on his own lawn. The same as generations of warriors before them have spilled blood so that their countrymen may take for granted the freedoms and rights they enjoy, not trade them away as soon as some wild-eyed and rabid band of zealots start rattling their sabres.
This is a clash of principles. You draw your line and defend it.
Oh horseshit. Look, this isn't a war of "let's go in, kick ass, then we're done", it's a war of "let's go in, kick ass, then win hearts and minds, and create a stable regime that is friendly to the US and the West". If you don't get that, and if you don't get why this redneck fuck publicly holding and broadcasting book-burning a Koran on Sep 11 is detrimental to that goal, and thus why US military and political leaders are publicly condemning it (not cause they're liberal pansies, but because they don't want unnecessary friction caused in the countries they are trying to build friendly relationships with), then you aren't NEARLY as intelligent as I thought you were when you came on this site, that or you're just a thinly-veiled right-wing crank who's drank the necon/clash of civilzations Kool-Aid, and wants more conflict with the Islamic world.
Maybe you want the UK to have a full military deployment in Iraq and Afghanistan indefinitely. Maybe you want the UK to be forever involved in direct and proxy military and intelligence operations in the Islamic world. Fine, but I don't want that for my country. I want my friends deployed overseas back in one piece-- I want the money we're spending on that shit to be used for real healthcare reform and infrastructure development and pulling us out of this shit economy where those of us lucky enough to have jobs can't even pay their bills or sustain their debt.
So when it comes to the lives and livelihood of my friends, family and neighbors and your precious fucking "clash of principles" (which really just a war between the Western capitalist/imperialists and a bunch of fucking religious nutjobs who we probably wouldn't even be dealing with if the West hadn't felt the need to endlessly meddle in the affairs of that part of the world since the end of WWI, and in Pakistan's case even before then-- some fucking principles there), which do you think wins out?
Liberal pansies
Are you on another fuckin planet? You really think a four-star Army general overseeing active combat operations is a "liberal pansy"? Or maybe, ya know, he's actually thinking of
bonafide operational concerns. Geez.
pick up a gun and guard a post or stop playing arm chair general here
Its all easy here to sit here and say
When the ones that are actually doing it, telling the pastor to quit, that's who you listen to. As CIC, Obama did the right thing
+1. Fuckin A, _truth_
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