re: #105 avanti

I need to keep my blood pressure down while surfing the web. My latest are web sites promoting burning the Koran and posting video’s.
That’s bad enough, but they openly mock General Petraus. A example of a thread about General’s request to not give aid to the enemy by Koran burning:

“But I do have the action for it. We the People will force the issue right here and now. If peacefully exercising our unalienable rights on our own property here in our own homeland endangers you, then we will endanger you.”

WTF, I thought Petraus was a hero on the right, but he tries to protect our troops and he’s now under the bus ?

There’s an element for whom supporting the troops is only important if it doesn’t inconvenience you in any way.

I do understand the caution about people’s speech being controlled by threats of reaction by religious fanatics a world away. I wasn’t too keen when people went around saying that peacefully protesting the war in Iraq was giving fuel to jihadis.

But acting as though Petraeus is the bad guy here is not reasonable. He communicated his situation very clearly, and a lot of people have clearly decided that their person desire to act out is more important than hasbara for the country.