Admittedly, he’s a publicity hound. At first, I didn’t want Pastor Terry Jones to burn the Koran, mainly because I worried about our Marines in Afghanistan.
But Gen. David Petraeus and Sen. Lindsey Grahamnesty have made me change my mind. Are we to restrict our own civil liberties because of the ignorant sensitivities of some seventh century throwbacks who live in the least desirable political unit in its part of the world? Petraeus is sickening here because he sides with non-white Muslim ignorant fanatics over someone who shares his own race, religion (presumably) and citizenship status. Grahamnesty’s words should finally make it clear why wars over there and civil liberties over here are inexorably intertwined, and if we have to be “over there,” we should be over there only for the best of reasons and for the minimum amount of time possible.
This reminds me of the last major issue with which I had a disagreement with PJB, that being the Mohammed Cartoons controversy. Until now, I actually contradicted myself on being against Pastor Jones and yet for the Danish cartoonists.
