The Apology Heard Round the World

Remember when your mother taught you to apologize? Maybe you pulled your sister's hair or pushed your brother for a cookie. Maybe you called your sister fat or your brother retarded.

Whether physical or verbal, we tend to harm others through our lives. Sometimes inadvertently, we can say something with no malicious intention that harms someone. We also can be responsible for other people's actions who are under our authority that can harm others.

Apologies are needed and are a moral by-product of Judeo-Christian teachings. The book of Matthew tells us to "reconcile with your brother" and the book of James tells us to "confess sins to one another."

We are a country founded upon the precepts of the Judeo-Christian tradition. Furthermore, we have made great strides in our young history to make amends for wrongdoing. We have apologized in the past and gave gifts as Matthew 5:24 tells us to do.



Recent violence in Afghanistan because of the burning of some Qurans by US troops has been a point of controversy. Oh, it's not the burning of the religious books. Hell, it's not even the despicable acts of the Afghans themselves, more specifically the soldiers that the Americans have trained, who are shooting our soldiers in the back of the head.

It's the apology heard round the world uttered by the feckless lips of our president that is the true controversy. Even now, there are reports that our military actually had pragmatic reasons to destroy those Qurans. The Qurans may have already been desecrated at the hands of their owners, the Taliban and Al Qaeda prisoners. There are reports that the Qurans were used to pass messages.

Even if the report about the messages are false, there is the possibility that it was inadvertent.

Inadvertent or purposeful destruction of the Islamic holy book is not the "great sin" that we need to be apologizing for. Mr. President, you need to be demanding an apology from Karzai and his people for the killing of US soldiers. Mr. President, the world may have heard your apology but the world also heard a concession to the egregious and ungrateful acts of bloody, barbarous violence by the Afghan people.

Afghan soldiers that our military have trained have been killing our troops before the book burning. The people have rioted and committed violence.

Let me remind you the reader, you the American, you the foreigner, whoever you are. Whether you support our presence in Afghanistan (I do not), our military have sacrificed greatly and spilled blood for these Afghans. What is more, we have spent over a half a trillion dollars in helping these people and protecting them.

Muslim clerics call for punishment and even death to American military. The same people we died for and are hemorrhaging money for are violently rioting, burning American flags, and pictures of Obama. More devastating, they have killed the soldiers who are there to help and protect them. They have said they would not accept an apology and demand punishment.

They don't want an apology and they don't deserve an apology. Do these same Muslims apologize for Christian churches and other objects of the Christian faith being destroyed? Do they apologize for the murders of countless Christians throughout the Muslim world?

Let's be more specific. Does Karzai apologize for the killing of Americans by his own soldiers?

Where was Obama's apology when the government under his administration gave guns to the Mexican drug cartels that have killed border agent Brian Terry? An apology that is rightfully owed needs to be given.

I am so furious over this whole Afghanistan quagmire. It needs to end. We need to pull out. We can't "democratize" them. We can't police and nation build. It has become a failure. The people don't want us there and are willing to kill our troops. They so easily commit violence and murder over a few Qurans being either inadvertently burnt or burnt to keep secret messages from reaching the enemy.

It is apparent that our President is weak but this shows him to be cowardly. Furthermore, it shows he favors one religion over all others. He can't even issue a stern condemnation and earnest plea to the Iranians to release the Christian pastor. He refuses to respect the Catholic faith with contraceptives. Only the Muslim faith gets a pass. Obama wouldn't say it was a Muslim extremist who shot those people at Fort Hood back in 2009.

The violence against our troops accompanied with that Muslim faith gets a pass by capitulation and cowardice voiced with an apology from our supposed leader.

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Please read the below article that I found informing and which inspired me to write on the same issue.
Despicable actions in Iran and Afghanistan: A double feature