Real leadership — although it would have been even better if Santorum, or anyone else, had not just said that the burning of the Qur’an was inadvertent, but that to react violently is demonic, demented madness, and must not be tolerated or appeased. And that even if this “mistake” had not been made, that the U.S. does not consider itself to be bound by Sharia rules regarding the treatment of the Qur’an, and is not going to be threatened or intimidated into enforcing them. But obviously that is far too much to hope for.
Because let’s face it: why is everyone in the U.S. Government falling all over himself to apologize to every Afghan and Muslim on the planet? Because Islamic supremacists who get enraged tend to kill people. That’s the only reason. If Roman Catholics started killing people who made them pay for contraceptive insurance, you’d see a lot more “respect” for Roman Catholicism coming out of the Obama White House. Essentially, then, in all this apologizing, Obama and his cohorts are simply bowing to violent intimidation, and reinforcing the principle that terrorism works. If you kill enough people, if you are irrational and brutal enough, you will get what you want. That is the fundamental lesson of this episode. No one in the West has the spine any longer to stand up to thugs and savages and say: Enough. Sit down and stop it, or we will do what we have to do to render you powerless to commit any more acts of savagery.
“We should NOT have apologised for Koran burning, says Santorum as another eight Americans are hurt in Afghan protest violence,” by Hannah Roberts and Suzannah Hills in the Daily Mail, February 26 (thanks to Pamela Geller):
Rick Santorum has condemned President Barack Obama’s apology for the burning of Korans at a U.S base in Afghanistan.
The Republican presidential hopeful added that Afghanistan should apologise to the U.S. for the deaths of four U.S. soldiers during six days of violence sparked by the incident.
‘There was nothing deliberately done wrong here,’ Santorum told ABC’s This Week today.
‘This was something that happened as a mistake. Killing Americans in uniform is not a mistake. It was something that deliberate.’…
‘The response needs to be apologized for by (President Hamid) Karzai and the Afghan people for attacking and killing our men and women in uniform and overreacting to this inadvertent mistake,’ Santorum explained on NBC’s ‘Meet the Press’. ‘That is the real crime here, not what our soldiers did.’
The president’s apology suggests that there is blame and that the U.S. did something wrong ‘in the sense of doing a deliberate act,’ Santorum said….