No Apologies from Karzai for 76 Murdered Coalition Troops
The two soldiers pictured above are, from left to right, Specialist Payton Jones and Staff Sergeant Jordan Bear of the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division. These two soldiers were killed last week reportedly in response to the accidental burning of Qurans at Bagram air base.
This adds two more soldiers to the growing list of those murdered by
our Afghanistan “allies.” An Afghan soldier and a literacy teacher at a
joint base in Kandahar province killed these paratroopers. We know they
were targeted because someone burned a few books, those books being
Qurans. Is there any other religion on earth that kills people over the
burning of their “bible”? Of course not. You could burn a hundred Bibles
on the doorstep of a church and, at worst, be arrested for starting a
fire, but you would not be marked for death.
So President Obama decides he has to apologize for the burning, even
though, according to reports, the Qurans were accidentally destroyed.
Yes, they were destroyed because they were being used by prisoners at
Bagram Air Base for passing messages--hardly a holy or reverential use.
The Qurans were confiscated, placed in an office, and later they were
mistaken for trash and burned. Then, apparently, some Afghan trash
collectors found the burned Qurans and used the situation to spark
protests and demonstrations that led to the deaths of six soldiers and
these two paratroopers last week.
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