These savages in Muslim countries will burn bibles, churches, people, but god forbid anyone in the rest of the world harm the Koran or image of Mohamed, because they'll go on mindless rampages killing in the name of their religion. That's an issue, but that's not my immediate concern here.
Afghanistan is not worth one more American life and we should get the hell out of that worthless craphole. That's an issue, but that's not my immediate concern here.
I think it's important to make a point that in the real world -not the world we'd like to exist- we should have the brains and emotional maturity to temper what we have the right to do with what we
should do. I know you have this need to feel all big and righteous about our rights and need to pound your chest over “curtailing our rights to appease nutjobs who are offended,” but words come cheap for a small person like you. You're not the one affected.
This deliberately staged act came after they were warned by fellow religious leaders and government officials -including Bush and Petraeus- of the very real possibility that their publicity stunt would provoke just this type of reaction from radical Muslims. The president and commander don't get to operate in a pretty world of theory and false bravado... they deal with the realities on the ground, where people die because of the actions of others.
When some nutcase pulls a bullshit stunt and spouts off that we are in a holy war with Islam they give a tremendous boost to Al Qaeda's propaganda machine. They are acting in direct opposition to the strategy behind our "war on terror." Bush spent almost his entire term in the White House trying to convince the Muslim world that America's war on radical terrorists is not a war on Islam in general. Obama has continued that. Our success hinges on convincing enough Muslim nations and people that we are not fighting a holy war. Whoever encourages or applauds idiots like Jones and Boykin is aiding our enemies. That is the simple fact you cannot ignore: YOU are hurting our troops. Those are my brothers over there.
In WWII, people made a lot of sacrifices and didn't do some things,
even though they had the right, because they knew it could hurt the war effort. And I wonder where you were, knucklehead, when that Iman wanted to plant a mosque next to the WTC site... he had the RIGHT to do that, even though restraint and discretion should prevail. You have the RIGHT to go spouting off to some Hell's Angel dude about how crappy his ride is, or drive through Compton blaring White Power music, but I doubt you'll do that even though your obviously so committed to free speech, you fucking hypocrite, maybe it's not so much about free speech but rather you just have a penis size issue with Islam. Cut your nose to spite your face...