Money quote(s):
"It all sums up to “was it wrong? Yes. Should everybody get their knickers in a wad as if this little incident was a combination of My Lai, Malmedy, Auschwitz and the Rape of Nanking all rolled into one as some pundits have been hyperventilating? No. It was wrong, the guilty should be properly and appropriately punished and, oh by the way:
“As for everyone else, unless you have been shot at by the Taliban, shut your mouth, war is hell.”
I wouldn’t go quite that far, everybody is certainly entitled to their opinion whether they’ve been in The Suck or not (although the latter group does have a perspective that the former can never have), it’s just that in some quarters it has gone from disapproval to F-5 hysteria. But I get the sentiment.
"In retrospect, it seems like much more fuss has been made about the near-burning of some Taliban-desecrated korans than this earlier incident ever generated.
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