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    Saturday, February 25. 2012

    Insane

    Drudge headlines this morning:


    5th day of Koran-burning protests...
    Islamists rampage British WWII cemetery in Libya...
    Mobs charge US bases...
    Taliban: Kill foreigners...
    Pentagon Official Apologizes at VA Mosque...
    Obama 'deeply regrets'...
    Gingrich: Obama 'surrendered' with apology...


    Andy McCarthy asks whether we have officially lost our minds. I haven't. My government has.


    Who is crazier: the ignorant, lunatic, hyper-reactive Muslems, or our pathetic Western governments? Gee whiz, I am so deeply sorry I hurt your sensitive feelings while sacrificing our lives while trying to rescue your freedom and lives.


    Krauthammer: U.S. apology for Koran burning ‘embarrassing,’ ‘groveling’:



    "This is a world in which nobody asked the Islamic conference, the grouping of the 56 Islamic countries, to issue an apology when Christians are attacked and churches are burned in Egypt or in Pakistan. And have we heard a word from any Islamic leader anywhere about the radical Muslims in Nigeria who are not only burning the churches but are burning women and children who are Christian in the churches. When I hear that, I’ll expect my president to start issuing apologies.”


    According to The Washington Post columnist, this response makes the United States look weak and despite looking weak, those on the other side rarely reciprocate.



    Rarely, Charles? try "never."


    Via Gateway on these nutjobs:



    “Nothing but burning the White House can relieve the wound of us, the Muslims, caused by the Burning of Quran in the US,” he underscored.


    “Their apology can be accepted only by hanging their commanders; hanging their commanders means an apology,” he reiterated.


    Obama has sent a letter to his Afghan counterpart Karzai, apologizing for the burning of copies of the Holy Quran.



    These people make Islam look both stupid and bad. If they don't want to understand me, why should I bother trying to understand them? "Hearts and minds"? Are you kidding?  


    Screw 'em. We gave them a chance, and that's all we can do. On this topic, I agree with Obama and the Russians and the Brits before: Afghanistan is a tar baby. If they aren't one kind of trouble, they're another: heroin, terrorism, tribal warfare, Taliban. Kipling knew this.

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