March 2012
Koran Burning Spurs Obnoxious Protests.
I was appalled to hear an American general abjectly apologize for the burning of some “religious materials” at the Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan. He apologized to President Karzai, and then to the “noble people of Afghanistan” (when do we ever say something like “noble people”), painfully in regret over the “unintended” offense.
If the general thought that this apology might protect American and NATO servicemen from attack, he was sadly misinformed. They a more...