... then he has absolutely no reason to complain about the President's apology to President Karzai. I also believe the President should apologize even if the two events are related.
The Koran burning had to do with a poor 'process' the USA military used regarding Korans belonging to prisoners who were using their "Holy Book" as a tool for organizing to assault USA military.
So, no different than 'jihad' being used against governments and people by extremists, Korans are being used for military strategies.
But, in all honesty, those Korans were evidence. They were evidence to the tactics used by prisoners of war and how they were attempting to carry out military missions within the prisons they were held.
In my opinion, the Korans should have been shipped to the Pentagon or CIA or FBI on the next C-5 Transport out of Afghanistan. Then the USA government on USA soil could evaluate the evidence, record it and handle it appropriately.
The President needed to apologize for a poor process. It is reasonable he would do that as these 'incidents' definitely interpreted in the Afghan Street into Anti-Americanism and Anti-Karzai. I do not believe this incident was something that resulted from the new leadership of General Dempsey. We have witnessed these problems before, but, it might be a good exercise for General Dempsey to work with the intelligence agencies and the USA justice department or the JAG corp to develop better processes for such evidence and items of sensitive religious nature.
It is my understanding the killings of American soldiers in Afghanistan were more acts of murder on a personal level than a combat injury. If that is the case then the Taliban have to be held for trial of an American and an American that was also military.
The two events are completely unrelated from what I can discern and the Afghan Street is still protesting. There needs to be an investigation to the nature of the deaths of the USA soldiers, but, as a rule the USA military does that anyway.
The Koran burning had to do with a poor 'process' the USA military used regarding Korans belonging to prisoners who were using their "Holy Book" as a tool for organizing to assault USA military.
So, no different than 'jihad' being used against governments and people by extremists, Korans are being used for military strategies.
But, in all honesty, those Korans were evidence. They were evidence to the tactics used by prisoners of war and how they were attempting to carry out military missions within the prisons they were held.
In my opinion, the Korans should have been shipped to the Pentagon or CIA or FBI on the next C-5 Transport out of Afghanistan. Then the USA government on USA soil could evaluate the evidence, record it and handle it appropriately.
The President needed to apologize for a poor process. It is reasonable he would do that as these 'incidents' definitely interpreted in the Afghan Street into Anti-Americanism and Anti-Karzai. I do not believe this incident was something that resulted from the new leadership of General Dempsey. We have witnessed these problems before, but, it might be a good exercise for General Dempsey to work with the intelligence agencies and the USA justice department or the JAG corp to develop better processes for such evidence and items of sensitive religious nature.
It is my understanding the killings of American soldiers in Afghanistan were more acts of murder on a personal level than a combat injury. If that is the case then the Taliban have to be held for trial of an American and an American that was also military.
The two events are completely unrelated from what I can discern and the Afghan Street is still protesting. There needs to be an investigation to the nature of the deaths of the USA soldiers, but, as a rule the USA military does that anyway.
...In the deadliest day of unrest so far, (click title to entry - thank you) at least 12 people died across the country, as mobs charged at US bases and diplomatic missions.
More than 20 people have been killed since the unrest began, including two US soldiers who died on Thursday.
President Barack Obama has apologised for the Koran-burning incident.
In a letter to his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai, Mr Obama said the books had been "unintentionally mishandled".
US personnel apparently put the books into a rubbish incinerator at Bagram air base, near Kabul....
