A Good Old-Timey Book Burning Is Just What This Country Needs

[ng_nighthawk]

General Patraeus, the President, and Interpol have all got it wrong. Or, rather, they've got it right, but the problem is that they are focusing on tactical problems when the reality is that the public burning of the Koran is a stragetic problem for the U.S. which makes the tactical issues pale in comparison.

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[drdeleto]

According to Wikipedia, the lovely people at Westboro Baptist Church are angry that when they burned the Koran 2 years ago, no one gave them this much attention. This points out what is the real systemic problem (tiny embittered communities of religious folks is the non-systemic problem you can't do anything about): The ability and proclivity of the media to turn an insignificant annoyance into an international socio-political event