OBAMA'S KORAN-BURNING APOLOGY RESPONSIBLE FOR KILLING AMERICAN SOLDIERS? - Is Congress Simply Brain-dead?

[Harry Riley]

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Bolton-Obama-Apologies-US/2012/02/25/id/430544?s=al&promo_code=E44B

Amb. Bolton: Obama’s Apologies for US ‘Incite’ Violence Abroad 

By David A. Patten

Saturday, 25 Feb 2012

 

President Barack Obama’s readiness to apologize for an apparently accidental Koran-burning incident is a signal of weakness that actually incites further unrest, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton says.

In an exclusive interview with Newsmax Saturday afternoon, Bolton said that President Obama’s apologies are only making things worse.

“Look, you apologize when you’ve done something wrong and you want to make amends,” Bolton said. “You don’t apologize when makes you admit to a mistake that you haven’t made, and in fact in this case incites the people to do some of these things, because they think the apology is an admission of wrongdoing.

“When in fact,” he added, “I think the facts are still murky as far as I’m concerned, but I don’t think anybody set out intentionally to desecrate the Koran. I think quite the opposite is true.”

Bolton stipulated that the administration is not intentionally trying to fan the flames of religious violence in the Middle East.

“But I do think … they assume our people had made a mistake, and that I think is going to have a very negative effect on morale in Afghanistan at exactly the time when operations are beginning to decline.

“And the reaction,” he said, “shows how incorrect it is for the administration to follow this arbitrary timetable to suspend combat operations next year,” said Bolton.

Bolton also commented on last week’s remark by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey that Iran, which has been implicated in several recent assassination attempts, is a “rational actor.”

Bolton said Iran’s view of what is rational is vastly different from the U.S. definition.

He cited the death sentence handed down by Iran against an Iranian pastor who converted from Islam to Christianity.

He called Iran’s action against the pastor “a plain offense against freedom of religion,” adding, “It shows in their system, freedom of religion and freedom of conscience really does not count for anything at all.”

Despite its lack of progress, Bolton said the administration still believes Iran can be brought to the negotiating table and won’t do anything that could endanger that.

He said Dempsey and others in the administration appear to be guilty of “mirror imaging,” that is, the tendency to assume others think the way you do. The fact that an apparently accidental Koran-burning incident would touch off weeklong rioting suggests that is not the case, he said.

“You’re sitting at the table, you’re prepared to try and reach a solution, so surely the other guy is prepared to reach a solution, too,” Bolton said. “But if the guy on the other side of the table thinks that you’re a depraved representative of an immoral, degenerate, declining civilization, maybe his thoughts don’t exactly go along the same lines as yours do.”

Bolton said mirror imaging is a common problem in the State Department, adding, “But as this reveals, it’s obviously a problem at the Defense Department, too.”

One reason for U.S. misconceptions regarding Iranian intentions, he said, is that an increasingly secular America appear increasingly ill-equipped to fathom the depth of religious fervor motivating extremists.

“The left in this country, following the economic determinism of Karl Marx, thinks everything is motivated by economic factors,” he said. “And that’s simply not true.”

That the president is apologizing for the United States, rather than strongly condemning religious persecution in many Islamic countries, sends signals of weakness to America’s enemies, he said.

“I think the perception internationally, and I think particularly in the Middle East, is that the president is weak, he does not assert American interests, that he can be pushed,” Bolton told Newsmax. “And every time that he does something like this, it just simply confirms that impression.

“I think the president thinks that American strength is provocative,” Bolton said. “And in fact, it is 180-degrees the opposite: American weakness is provocative. And Obama is a very provocative president.”

[Richard Charles Wagener]

I have zip,zero,nada respect for Obama and everyone in his party.  This country, The United States of America is being willfully and methodically destroyed by Obama and his thugs. I ask myself, what would our Founders do if they were alive today?  This gives me courage to keep on, but human nature says, if the Majority of Americans don't have a clue or give a damn about what's going on,. they will be getting what they deserve, so what?  That is not how our Founders would react or the reactions of a patriot, so I pick up the weapons at my disposal, word of mouth; pen and paper; protesting; reading;studying; joining groups of like minded patriots.  All of this good, but unless we fight under and with Divine help, it is all for nought.  We were founded as one nation under God, and unless we as a nation turn back to Almighty God, and His laws, we are doomed to fail.  And the fact that we wandered from Him as did the Chosen People we are doomed to reap the same results that they did.

[PeoplePower]

The Unconstitutional Usurper is an Instigator. Has been inciting unrest on every continent since he absconded to high office of the POTUS. He just needs to be frog walked out in cuffs and chains, down the front steps ot the Whitehouse for all to see.

[PeoplePower]

He just keeps pushing the US Citizens. It will come to a head and soon.

[Paul JJ Jensen]

Oh my friends, its boiled down to the old Biblical "Good -vs- Evil" and Islam is no doubt the "Evil"..... So, before Islamiphobia is outlawed, put on the full armor of God, fill some balloons with pig blood and bombard every Mosque from here to Mecca...............Amen

[John Kay]

How do you have a Trial in Afghanistan of Americans Soldiers under NATO law? Is this about Qurans being burnt, or having American Soldiers submit to some International Law or Shari Law? I know the penalty for Blasphemy under Sharia Law is Death.

I have no idea under NATO law what the penalty for following protocol and orders is for the proper disposal of desecrated Qurans is.

I remember A President not long ago disposed of OBL out in the middle of the Ocean. Should he face the same tribunal to determine his fate?

I guess we are back to determine what the definition of is is. And who should determine the fate of Americans Sacrificing and Serving this country.

Think of the families back home who are really really concerned about the loved ones they have over in Afghanistan.

Who is the real enemy?

If the President does not Support Our Troops then we MUST!

Afghan Military and ANP have Now murdered 7 US soldiers 
We are putting Americans on trial for following protocol and orders! 
We have Pulled our troops back from contact from Afghan Military and ANP!

If OBAMA PLACES AMERICANS ON TRAIL FOR THIS! 
LETS DO A MASS QURAN BURNING ALL OVER THIS FREE SPEECH AMERICA! 
WHAT SAY YOU ????????????????????????????????? 
ARE YOU GOWING TO BOW TO MUHAMMAD AND OBAMA! 
Start the Tweets 
Start the Facebooking 
Start the e-mails 
Start the Phone Calls

WHEN OBAMA PLACES AMERICANS ON TRIAL FOR THIS!

Or are we going to BOW to ISLAMIST!

[GRINGO LUCERO]

HERE'S a Sample of my work, which was an e-mail I received but I tacked on some links.                                                                                                                   

Subject: islam....Wake UP PEOPLE!!! VIDEOS
To:

 

   Date: Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 2:21 AM
Subject: ISLAM...Wake UP PEOPLE!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=tCAffMSWSzY#t=28

 

The Only thing I like about Ron Paul...His Constitional Thoughts and Get The H out of the middle East...Let the Idiots Kill Themselves...We are Helping the Muslim Brotherhood!! WE HAVE A MUSLIM PRESIDENT!!!! No time for Politically Correct BS. All BHO has Done in The Middle East is For ISLAM....PERIOD!!!  WITH YOUR TAX DOLLARS
                                                                                                  http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=HdAesed7vvs

                                                                         http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4194506,00.html

http://patriotsforamerica.ning.com/forum/topics/extremist-cleric-to...-

[John Kay]

I'll check it out THANKS

Here is a reply that I saw today that says it better than I can

Subsunk said...

I am afraid that even I have lost faith in the strategy to use the Afghan armed forces to secure the country long enough for us to leave peacefully. Remove our troops, advisors and diplomats, along with all our equipment and money, from Afghanistan as quickly as feasible, following a planned safe withdrawl, and then bomb the crap out of any place, village, town, city that lobs farewell, parting shots at us. Every single terrorist act perpetrated by any Taliban, or Muslim terrorist is greeted with massive conventional retaliation from afar. Any WMD attack shall be met by nuclear retaliation. Tracing any attack to forces outside Afghanistan shall be met by the same in the country of origin.

If unrest develops in the US over unfair treatment of Muslim countries, then deport them without hesitation and continue bombing until the attacks stop.

I'm done with a nation building, civilized approach. Muslims, in their current state of religious advancement, do not deserve such moderated consideration. When they stop trying to kill us, we will stop killing them.

And when I give up the nation building fight, almost every one already has.......

Subsunk

[Len Miles]

In the last war that we won, WWII, this kind of nonsense was unheard of. In the recent video played on this website, President Ronald Wilson Reagan stated there is NO greater risk than appeasement and that is oBAMA’s specialty. he stands, NOT for America, even though he swore he would, but plainly stands first with the islamic rats that he spent most of his life with, and then apologizes to these murdering, cave dwelling, scoundrels.

he drags America through the mud as no other US President has ever done before. There is an overwhelming conflict of interest and it’s plain to see that he has always looked at this country from the outside in and distains it and it's people to his core. What better way to destroy a country then from within and from the most revered office in the world.

[GRINGO LUCERO]

And he Badly Needs to be Looking at this Country From The OUTSIDE Again....PERMANENTLY.

[Len Miles]

An excerpt from Patrick Buchanan’s recent book….

“Avarice, ambition”, warned John Adams, will “break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

From Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address…

that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

With freedom comes responsibility, so our work is never done.