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

America's Slippery Slope: The Constitution (#2-February 14, 2012)

It seems in politics today that the Constitution is used to justify unconstitutional acts. One current example is the Patriot Act which violates the 4th Amendment that protects US citizens from unwarranted searches/seizures. Older examples in history are the Alien/Sedition Acts of 1917-these acts also shredded Constitutional rights of freedom of speech and of the press. Throughout history there seems to be two common reasons for unconstitutional acts; either fear or the social public need. I addressed fear with the above examples. Social need was used to establish the unconstitutional Welfare program. In fact, many Americans believe in a large State and more flexible Constitution to fit their political ideology. I am going to take you down a rabbit trail right now because I have to say this. Republicans seem to anger me more now-a-days. I debated one Republican sheep who said to me, “we need to fit the Constitution in our modern day,” which was in response to my claim that we have been waging unconstitutional wars. The Founding Fathers knew a little something about war and illegal invasions of sovereign countries. They just fought one and won it against King George III when framing the Constitution. James Madison once postulated, “The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.”  Conservatives tend to want undeclared war and more government intrusion for the sake of security at the expense of our Constitutional rights. Liberals tend to want the government to entitle and regulate as many Americans at the expense of our Constitutional rights. 

Now, a third group and more dangerous group are the Progressives or Utopian Statists. This term is not commonly used by the media or those in government. Just think of it as the term abortionist used to describe those who espouse woman's rights to choose. Liberal Progressives, who believe in a fairyland Utopia as written about by Thomas More, Karl Marx, and Thomas Hobbes, are Utopians. Utopians desire an America without the old rigid Constitution and many Americans don't know better. We know throughout history Utopian experiments do not work and usually end in death. Just look at Mao’s China or Cambodia after the Vietnam War. Canada is another example. They attempted the Utopian experiment of Government controlled healthcare which lead to the Supreme Court deciding it “unconstitutional and inhumane” in the landmark case, Chaoulli v. Quebec in 2005. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaoulli_v._Quebec_(Attorney_General))

I believe in a society that resists Utopian-engineered government—government that is centralized and retains all power of both entitling the people and regulating every facet of the people's life. Furthermore, liberty must replace Utopian-centralized government. I say replace; because the Utopian style of government has been growing as a terrifying overreaching tree whose roots are firmly attached into the sinews of our society. It grows stronger everyday while the people become complacent and the youths of the next generation are sheep, fed with Utopian propaganda throughout their years of education. Fed is a more soft term; no, Americans are being brainwashed to believing that we simply need a government that "works" and not worry if it is too big. (President Obama's Inaugural Speech http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/inaugural-address) Liberty can only be protected and encouraged by a return to Constitutional Republic form of government. But there are those in Government who know about this crazy thing called Liberty and how it endangers their Utopian dream. They must actively undermine the Constitution till they render it completely irrelevant.

You see, when someone wants to do something that contradicts the law above them like the Constitution, they vaguely justify the behavior. How do they vaguely justify? Political rhetoric is used to etch in false reasoning and wording between the lines. Liberals say "separation of church and state" and this phrase is etched in between the lines of the Constitution. "Right to privacy" is more political rhetoric that was used to justify the unconstitutional deprivation of life to the unborn. Just try to follow this flawed logic. I’ll give a disturbing comparison. Woman should be able to kill human life in private but people shouldn't have all their private wealth and property. Liberals are not the only ones that use political rhetoric to justify unconstitutional doings. Republican conservatives have also done this, more on fear rationale and military intervention. They also have attempted to engineer society in their own way with Prohibition both with alcohol in the past and currently with drugs. They also seem to think the government has an authority not given to them by the Constitution in defining marriage. However, the Utopian-progressive motives are much more dangerous to our country with their push for a strong centralized government envisioned by Marx whom their savior-complex minds salivate over. What I am getting at, is that the Constitution is in danger of further being ignored and usurped—usurped by a powerful Oligarchical-centralized government with an all-powerful Premier.  

Why has the Constitution become another paper document gathering dust on the back shelf in the library of American history?  To many Statists, it needs to fit to their ideological purpose. To Utopian Statists, it is irrelevant and outdated needing to be burned over an open flame. It is too rigid and keeps the president from getting things done. A powerful Chairman is needed to direct the central government without opposition. The people can't have so much freedom and prosperity from that freedom. Supreme Court judge, Ginsberg, said to Egypt, don't use our Constitution but use Canada's or South Africa. This is an important time in American history. We desperately need a return to a Constitutional republic that protects and promotes liberty. When the Constitution is treated as another old paper document, our liberty will cease to be. As my favorite author, George Orwell, bluntly said, “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don’t want to hear.” We Americans have been told much nice, unrealistic, illogical rhetoric to convince us we need Utopia.  It is time we listen to what we don’t want to hear, the uncomfortable and politically incorrect truth. Our Constitution is still relevant and must be guarded.