Gleanings and Musings, Courtesy of a Veteran Cold Warrior: AFTER NATO BLOOD AND TREASURE IN LIBYA: GRAVES OF WWII BRITISH TROOPS SMASHED AND DESECRATED BY LIBYAN MUSLIMS IN PROTEST OVER U.S. SOLDIERS' KORAN BURNING

Saturday, February 25, 2012

AFTER NATO BLOOD AND TREASURE IN LIBYA: GRAVES OF WWII BRITISH TROOPS SMASHED AND DESECRATED BY LIBYAN MUSLIMS IN PROTEST OVER U.S. SOLDIERS' KORAN BURNING

From Atlas Shrugs:

Saturday, February 25, 2012

AFTER NATO BLOOD AND TREASURE IN LIBYA: GRAVES OF WWII BRITISH TROOPS SMASHED AND DESECRATED BY LIBYAN MUSLIMS IN PROTEST OVER U.S. SOLDIERS' KORAN BURNING

And Obama is apologizing. And our Generals are apologizing. And the Pentagon is apologizing. America, where are you on this?

Why would civilized men apologize for destroying materials that were being used to send jihadist messages to kill our soldiers, our citizens? This is madness. Where are Muslim apologies for 1,400 years of jihadi wars, land appropriations, cultural annihilations and enslavements? Where are the apologies for the relentless war on the Jews, the Hindus, Christians, and all non-Muslims? Where are the apologies for 911, 7/7, 3/11, the Cole, Khobar, Beslan, and Bosnia?

As an American, I do not apologize. I withdraw Obama's apology. I withdraw General Allen's apology. I condemn their apology. I do not submit to a culture that suffocates ideas, critical thinking, women, non-Muslims. I do not apologize that the United States of America is "the greatest, the noblest and, in its original founding principles, the only moral country in the history of the world."

It took centuries of intellectual, philosophical development to achieve political freedom. It was a long struggle, stretching from Aristotle to John Locke to the Founding Fathers. The system they established was not based on unlimited majority rule, but on its opposite: on individual rights, which were not to be alienated by majority vote or minority plotting. The individual was not left at the mercy of his neighbors or his leaders: the Constitutional system of checks and balances was scientifically devised to protect him from both. This was the great American achievement—and if concern for the actual welfare of other nations were our present leaders’ motive, this is what we should have been teaching the world. (Ayn Rand)

America does not apologize to savages and cannibals and ghouls.

Insult to WWII heroes: Graves of British troops smashed and desecrated by Libyan Islamists in protest over U.S. soldiers' Koran burning
By Daily Mail Reporter
A furious mob has desecrated dozens of Commonwealth War Graves in a Libyan cemetery amid continuing fury in the Middle East over the burning of the Koran by U.S. soldiers.
Headstones commemorating British and Allied servicemen, killed during World War II campaigns in the Western Desert, lay smashed and strewn across Benghazi Military Cemetery.
Protesters rampaged through site on Friday, despite efforts by America to calm tensions sparked when it emerged U.S. soldiers had burned Muslim holy books in a pile of rubbish at a military base in Afghanistan.
Desecrated: The headstones commemorating the deaths of allied servicemen, who fought in the Western Desert campaigns between 1942 to 1943, lay smashed on the ground
Sacrifice: Some 1,214 graves are marked in Benghazi War Cemetery
President Obama has apologised to President Karzai for the unintentional burning of the Korans at NATO's main Bagram air base after Afghan labourers found charred copies while collecting rubbish.
White House spokesman Jay Carney sought to counter criticism, telling reporters on board Air Force One: ‘It is wholly appropriate, given the sensitivities to this issue, the understandable sensitivities.’
But it appears to have had little affect on sentiment among many in the Middle East.
Twelve people died today during the bloodiest day yet of protests over the incident.
Immediately after news broke of the incident, more than 2,000 furious Afghans - some chanting ‘die, die foreigners’, other throwing rocks - gathered outside the giant US air base at Bagram, 40 miles north of the capital Kabul, as reports of the burning spread.
Military sources said that books were removed from the library of a nearby detention center because they contained extremist messages.
Prisoners had been writing in the books as way of communicating.
Smashed: The mob rampaged through the grave yard after President Barack Obama apologised for U.S. soldiers burning the Koran
Shattered: A gravestone in Benghazi War Cemetery, Libya, bears the scars of the rampaged by Muslims furious over the burning of the Koran by U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan
The calm before battle: Field Marshal Bernard 'Monty' Montgomery, right, enjoys a brew with troops just 24 hours before the El Alamein during the Western Desert Campaign in north Africa in 1942
There were immediate fears the Taliban and other insurgent groups would try to exploit the claims, using it as a rallying call against US, British and fellow Coalition forces.
The protests come as the FBI announced it has removed hundreds of pages of training documents that painted inaccurate or stereotypical views of Islam.
The counter-terrorism training materials referred to the Prophet Muhammad, the founder of Islam, as a cult leader and included graphs that implied devout Muslims got more violent throughout history, while Jews and Christians became less violent.

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