This young lady has it right, and I'm glad she had the initiative to voice her apology too.
My Apology to President Karzai on Behalf of Americans - YouTube
My Apology to President Karzai on Behalf of Americans - YouTube
I find this quite interesting. I wonder what would happen to me if a walked arround the mid west burning bibles? How long would it take before I was swinging from the nearest tree?
Never mind!
I can't be arsed to list all her inaccuracies.
I don't disagree with some of what she says, but consider this: we live in the era of the insincere pro-forma apology. You can't call customer service anywhere in the world without having someone begin apologizing immediately, which is endlessly annoying. Almost the first thing I do is insist on no more time-wasting apologies, and immediately getting down to business. So as Chief Executive, Obama is also the Chief Apologist. My guess is that he has been considerably less conciliatory to the people who decided to burn these books and create all this ruckus. They ought to have known that you can't have a civilized discussion with uncivilized people.
The only thing our military is guilty of in this instance is stupidity- they should have impounded the books and refused to give them back if they thought they contained code of some kind. Burning them predictably set off the kind of reaction it has; after all, they hate us over there.
Here are the different kinds of Afghanis that live in Arsefuckistan, I mean Afghanistan, excuse me:
-those that hate us and want to kill us
-those that hate us and want to kill us, but will work for us as long as we pay them
-those that hate us and want to kill us, but appreciate all we're doing to promote their cause against us
-those that hate us and want to kill us, so they proclaim us as their friends, so that types A will go ahead and kill us
No doubt members of this forum can find other kinds, but most of these if not all will have a description that begins "those that hate us and want to kill us"
Perhaps a better strategy would have been to just get us out of Iraq, cap Osama, and get out of Afghanistan as well. It has looked that way for a while to me, anyway.
I think on top of her apologies , we also owe vitrification .
I find this quite interesting. I wonder what would happen to me if a walked arround the mid west burning bibles? How long would it take before I was swinging from the nearest tree?
Precisely why I said "never mind".I think that you profoundly misunderstand the people of the midwest.
Rather than glass bowl the entire region, I say we start utilizing the vast amounts of oil the USA has. What we don't use, we sell to the rest of the world at a lower price than the cartel, and we let the Muslim world sink back into the stinking dessert from which they came.
You continue to have a very difficult time with facts. The US has 2.4% of the world's oil reserves.
World oil reserves | Public Agenda
I think that you profoundly misunderstand the people of the midwest.