Is a Quran Summit in order?
The Apologizer-In-Chief was at it again a few days ago.
And no, President Barack Obama was not apologizing to the American people for:
- ruining the economy
- a government power grab of the health care system (Obamacare)
- dissing America to any other country willing to listen
- attacking the Catholics with his mandate that Catholic institutions provide health care plans which cover birth control to their employees, which goes directly against Church Doctrine
- snubbing American allies in favor of our enemies
- ignoring the fact that 13 million Americans are unemployed
- gas prices that are rising faster than ever
- nixing the Keystone Pipeline, thus eliminating the possible creation of tens of thousands of real jobs as well as the opportunity to make the United States less dependent upon oil from the Middle East
- weakening the military by severely slashing the defense budget
- putting more people on food stamps then ever before (45.8 million!)
- getting a DEA agent killed due to the"Fast and Furious" program which had the United States supplying Mexican drug cartels with weapons
- prohibiting offshore drilling in many key areas of the United States, including the east and west coasts
- encouraging the "Occupy" protesters
- being the most polarizing and divisive president ever- actually encouraging class envy with his obvious desire to make people more reliant on government and promoting an "entitlement" mentality
- suing the state of Arizona for a bill that enforces U.S. federal law
- the Solyndra disaster and subsequent failures of other "green" businesses that have no business even being in business - and handing such companies millions of taxpayer dollars in the process
- employing dozens of "czars" to help promote his socialist agenda, with little accountability required
- a government take-over of General Motors, including a $60 billion dollar taxpayer-funded bailout
- the Stimulus Bill (aka "generational theft act") which did not create any "shovel-ready jobs" and saw unemployment levels rise above 9% (the true unemployment level is much higher today, in spite of Obama's manipulation of the numbers to forget about the millions of people who are not counted in the unemployment statistics, due to the fact they have stopped looking for a job)
- supporting a mosque two blocks away from Ground Zero
- strong ties with ACORN, Reverend Jeremiah "God Damn the United States" Wright, former members of the Weather Underground: Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dorhn, Tony Rezko (currently in the slammer), and many others in the socialist/communist, anti-American crowd
...and so on. There are just so many things that President Barack Hussein Obama could apologize to the United States for, but don't hold your breath.
No, the most recent apology from the Apologizer-In-Chief was directed at Muslims in Afghanistan.
The White House issued an apology on February 21st (Tuesday)* because a few Qurans were accidentally burned after they had been removed from the shelves of a detention center library, near the Bagram Air Base. A United States military official acknowledged that the Quran's and other Islamic reading materials were removed from the detention center because they contained inflammatory rhetoric promoting extremism, and that detainees were writing on the documents to exchange extremist messages. Several hundred Islamic publications, including Quran's were taken off the shelves. U.S. General John Allan stated that the books were mistakenly given to troops to be burned in a garbage pit. During the course of the burning, Afghan laborers noticed the Quran's and took them out of the fire, saving almost all. Initial reports stated that four Qurans were burned.
Well, even after the White House Apologizer-In-Chief said America was sorry for this grave mistake, it looks like all hell has broken loose in Afghanistan. Two American soldiers were gunned down during the first protests. Demonstrators in Afghanistan protested outside of the air field, yelling "die foreigners, die!," shooting rifles into the air, throwing rocks at the gates, and setting tires on fire. Numerous American flags have been burned. The outrage continues to grow, as the week goes on - with demands that the United States leave Afghanistan. Mohammad Qasim Sediqi, leader of the Khosi district council stated that "Apologies are not enough. The culprits have to be put on trial and culprits should face the law."
As for President Obama handling the situation, perhaps a "Quran Summit" at the White House is in order. Get the troops who accidentally burned a handful of Qurans to sit down over a beer....(oops, that wouldn't work - sorry!) ...to sit down over some non-alcoholic beverage, and meet with some of the leaders of the Afghan protests. Obama can serve up some peanuts, apologize again, make the troops apologize, (give the Afghans a free pass about burnt American flags/wounded and killed American soldiers, etc.) and hope for the best.
On the other hand, maybe Obama should nix the "summit" and stop apologizing to extremists who wish to kill us. Let the American military do its job without having to worry about "offending" extremists, and Afghans - who the United States is protecting with the troops and taxpayer dollars.
(*As a side note, the Milwaukee Journal/Sentinel finally saw fit to run a story on this 2/24/12, when the Quran burning and subsequent apology from the White House came out on 2/21/12).
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151 Comments
yert49 - Feb 24, 2012 3:30 PM
The very idea of Obama, rolling up his sleaves and tackling a problem, is something I cannot visualize him doing. He's incapable of doing it!
yert49 - Feb 24, 2012 3:51 PM
a bulett by bullet assessment of your silly arguement....
1) He's still ruining the economy. Whatever he inherited, he has made it worse. DUH!
2) We have the best health care in the world. What we need to do is eliminate the middlemen and make people responsible to oversee their own payments. When people have skin in the game, amazingly, the economics work out.
3) Are you stupid? Where have you been? (IT's always our fault)
4) I would harly call Catholic Priests and Bishops extremists. Most of them are very liberal and believe in unions, ...blah blah blah.
5) Again, have you heard of Israel? You are either blind, deaf and ignorant or all three.
6) Yes. And there's all of the other things he can do. Anwar, the Gulf, Keystone. Keep in mind, Solar power only works during daylight hours. Most of our energy is consumed at night.
7) Total pile of dung and totally wasted opportunity.
8) Unbelievably ignorant and why your side is going to get pounded in the fall elections.
You sound like Neveille Chamberlain and Joe Kennedy back in the 30's. Just so blatently stupid (on purpose) because you do not believe in the higher ideals of humanity and what we are capable of.
ahemmer - Feb 24, 2012 6:54 PM
(There is only one comment to this blog that I deleted from an unknown person. Didn't adhere in any sense to the Discussion Guidelines and was a one sentence attack on another commenter. It went bye-bye.)
Now to the "exposing liberalism" portion - Georgedubyabush states in an earlier comment: "Two soldiers die as a result of stupid American soldiers exercising extremely poor judgement? Yeah. That pretty much sums it up."
NO, that doesn't "sum it up." Two soldiers died because some lowlifes felt it necessary to kill them because four Qurans were accidentally burned. Is that really justifiable, George?
And do you think the American people - and the President - will receive an apology from the Afghan President Hamid Karzai for the deaths of these two soldiers?
Do you think the American people - and the President - will receive an apology from the Afghan President Hamid Karzai for Afghans burning the American flag?
And remember not long ago when the U.S. military burned Bibles in Afghanistan, after Al-Jazeera broadcast information implying that U.S. troops were trying to spread Christianity to the Afghans (heaven forbid!). Burning the Bibles was AOK.
See: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/05/20/us.military.bibles.burned/index.html?eref=edition
ahemmer - Feb 24, 2012 7:06 PM
You state: "Ahmad Majidyar senior research associate with the American Enterprise Institute, said the U.S. is taking the right approach by stressing the sincerity of its remorse..." but you forgot to finish the rest of his thoughts - "based on the conditions on the ground." And Majidyar also pointed out that going forward, much of how this plays out is in the hands of the Afghans and Karzai. See: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/think-tanked/post/koran-burning-should-the-united-states-stop-apologizing/2012/02/24/gIQAPlZwXR_blog.html
Hudson Senior Fellow Nina Shea believes the United States needs to stop apologizing for the (accidental) desecrations of Qurans.
By the way, Ahmad Majidyar also has been very outspoken against Obama's plans for troop withdrawal and giving the enemies U.S. timetables in the Middle East. He has said that our enemies see this is a sign of "weakness" - and they they are just biding their time for now. Ya think?
yert49 - Feb 24, 2012 7:21 PM
WFB resident - Feb 24, 2012 7:22 PM
jman99 - Feb 24, 2012 7:58 PM
MGarber - Feb 24, 2012 9:13 PM
Just out of curiosity, did you have anything particular in mind when you made this up Y49??
yert49 - Feb 24, 2012 9:45 PM
Georgiegirl, how did you get so simple? Mr. Irrelevent!
jman99 - Feb 24, 2012 10:03 PM
Ummmm, no, that's why energy rates are lower at night and businesses can pollute the night sky with poorly aimed photons that light up nothing at all.
Most energy is used for commercial and manufacturing activities that take place between the hours of 07:00 and 21:00
You know, the same time most folks are awake because the sun is up and they are doing things.
Perhaps you live in an alternate republican zombie universe, but most people here on earth tend to sleep at night.
WFB resident - Feb 24, 2012 10:37 PM
with freedom of speech ? I thought that life was important to PDLS's ? So why stop
there, if it is OK to kill people for the desecration of a Koran . Then it is OK for a
desecration of the Constitution also . But why stop there the Bible should have the
same security !! No ? (In no way am I saying it is OK to hurt/kill anyone !!)It is to
show the Hypocrisy of the PDLS's That is all !!
yert49 - Feb 25, 2012 7:08 AM
dark out which leaves half the world dark and only about 8 hours a day on our side
to collect it. What I said was true. We consume more energy when it's dark as
opposed to when it's light. Thought is a process that seems to have bypassed you.
Kinda sad!
yert49 - Feb 25, 2012 7:08 AM
dark out which leaves half the world dark and only about 8 hours a day on our side
to collect it. What I said was true. We consume more energy when it's dark as
opposed to when it's light. Thought is a process that seems to have bypassed you.
Kinda sad!
jman99 - Feb 25, 2012 7:37 AM
opposed to when it's light. "
Well if it is common knowledge to you, please provide evidence.
MGarber - Feb 25, 2012 8:52 AM
There are people waiting for some sort of evidence/data/train-of-thought to support this.
Or are you sticking with "its too dark 66% of the time"??
" Thought is a process that seems to have bypassed you. "
There's a difference between thinking alot and thinking good.
yert49 - Feb 25, 2012 10:54 AM
Now if you want to have an exchange of ideas that's one thing, I already stated in point number 2 that what we need is people to be responsible for the payment of their own healthcare and we eliminate most of the fraud and outrageous expense. I think we could agree that our healthcare is the ENVY of the world. It's the delivery or payment of it that needs fixed.
As to point one. You are correct Obama has strung some quarters of growth together. But if you think that 1-1.5 % growth is going to get 5 million people working again then you are delusional. We need to stop spending at our current rates so people will be confident enough to invest in our economy. You casnnot sustain this deficit spending. What are you going to do when the world say's sorry we are done investing due to your crazy spending. Do you see Greece, Portugal, Spain and Italy? Do you not believe that this could happen here? I can't believe you guys can't see this. Honestly, what Walker did here is going to help our state going forward. Unless your so wrapped up in your political agenda and you cannot honestly see what is going on, then there is no hope for you. The government does not need to Continually run deficits higher and higher without showing some leadership and bring spending down. Did Bush run them to high? Yes? Obama? Please! He can't even put a budget together and hasn't for the past 3 years.
If this is the kind of economic reasoning your going to stand behind, then you might as well just accept your defeat in November now. The American people will not stand for this anymore.
ahemmer - Feb 25, 2012 1:25 PM
Also, key point - the burning of a handful of Qurans was accidental. The U.S. military soldiers assigned the task probably didn't read Arabic, so they probably didn't even know what they were burning. Afghan laborers assisting in at the burn pit, noticed. And the burning ended. And Barry O. apologized - to no avail. I ask again - does President Obama demand an apology for the two U.S. soldiers killed by religious nuts because four Qurans were accidentally burned? No. Why not?
In the case of President Bush, he apologized for a U.S. soldier who intentionally shot a Quran - during the height of the war on terror. Bush apologized solely to protect the lives of U.S. soldiers. Big difference from Obama.
Obama apologizes because he likes to apologize to all - enemies included - for all the ills of the world that he perceives to have been caused by the country he is supposed to represent - the United States. Yet, it is easy to see how Obama detests his own country, and he loves to apologize (*note: President Bush NEVER went on worldwide apology tours, dissing his own country with enthusiasm)).
So there you have it, Georgedubyabush. And the U.S. military isn't too fond of it's "Commander-In-Chief" who is intent on slashing the defense budget and, like most lefties, has their nose up in the air when it comes to our servicemen and women. They know, George. They know. Obama is NO leader in any sense of the word.
Silly boy.
Carl Hicks - Feb 25, 2012 2:21 PM
So yert we use more electricity when it is dark? So your electric bill goes down
during long summer days when we see more sunlight?Dark office buildings
happy more electricity at night? You seem to think residential lighting is the
biggest electricity user lol that's a laugh.
Carl Hicks - Feb 25, 2012 2:31 PM
do hold him to not doing anything about gasoline prices.
Extra capacity will do nothing to contain prices as refined gasoline exportation is
increasing.
yert49 - Feb 25, 2012 2:42 PM
Also do you really believe everything shuts down when the sun goes down? Maybe when your outside brewin up the recipe and setin by the far.
Do you ever think anything through? Or are you just satisfied knowin your gizintas? You know, 1 gazinta 2, 2 gazinta 4, 4 gazinta 8.....