Newt Gingrich claims Hamid Karzai should apologize to the American people
In the wake of the revelation that a couple of Korans were inadvertently burned along with other books that Muslim prisoners were using to illegally communicate with the outside world Barack Obama has issued several apologies to the Afghan people. He isn’t the only one, several people within his administration have gone out of their way to apologize more than once for this mistake in an attempt to quell any violence which may occur from people within the religion of peace.
How has the contrition of the president and his regime been met? With violence which has included the killing of a couple of dozen people, including four Americans–the last two killed while they were within the Interior Ministry in Kabul. The apologies of the Obama regime have been met with violence and an utter disregard for the sanctity of life.
So while Barack Obama has been publicly apologizing to the Afghan people, what has Hamid Karzai’s response been to Barack Obama and the people of the United States for these deaths? Silence.
And what has Barack Obama’s response been to the news that Americans are being killed in response to the accidental burning of the Korans? Silence.
Barack Obama went out of his way to express his “deep regrets” for the Koran burning incident, but seems totally unaffected by the deaths of Americans which are a direct result of the Koran burning. Perhaps that is too strong; perhaps Barack Obama is too timid to condemn this violence for fear it will result in more violence, and he is continuing to try to appease these people instead of taking a strong stance against this violence. Barack Obama seems to feel more comfortable apologizing for America across the globe than he does in standing up for America when it is justified–such as in a case like this.
While Barack Obama has been too timid to call out Hamid Karzai, and while Barack Obama has been too timid to call for an end to the violence in Afghanistan, at least one Republican presidential candidate has stepped up to the plate and called out Hamid Karzai.
Newt Gingrich had some strong words for both Barack Obama and Hamid Karzai:
There seems to be nothing that radical Islamists can do to get Barack Obama’s attention in a negative way and he is consistently apologizing to people who do not deserve the apology of the president of the United States period
And, candidly, if Hamid Karzai, the president of Afghanistan, doesn’t feel like apologizing then we should say good bye and good luck, we don’t need to be here risking our lives and wasting our money on somebody who doesn’t care
Newt Gingrich is absolutely right on this issue: If Barack Obama feels it is appropriate to apologize to a nation with which we are at war and he is not reciprocated in his apology by the leader of that nation for the retaliatory actions of the very faction of the people within that nation with whom we are at war, which includes the murder of Americans, then maybe it is time to pick up our stakes and go home for we have already lost.
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And still, Karzai’s people continue to raise Opium Poppies and make hashish to weaken and tear apart American and other western societies ….. and our soldiers walk alongside and fight through these fields w/o burning them.
If nothing else will grow there than these crops, let the people migrate! We need a SCHORCHED EARTH policy where growing drugs are concerned . . . . . or don’t the American people remember the ansillary problems of the 60’s, re: Viet Nam?
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Yep, either fight to win or get out. Those are the only two options I see at this point.
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After recovering the bodies of our two officers, we should have called in an air strike and leveled that Ministry and a few others,
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But that would be intolerant….. 🙂
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Steve, to which nation with which we’re at war did President Obama apologize?
Josiahe: Why are you offended by Afghan farmers raising the most profitable crop they can? Isn’t that what free market capitalism is all about? Should they take significant hits to their incomes simply because we ask them to? I’m sure that there are some farmers who take pleasure in the thought that their crops are destroying American lives, but if corn suddenly became more profitable than opium, you can be certain it would quickly be planted in the fields of Afghanistan.
Conservatives on Fire: the Interior Ministry bombing was orchestrated by the Taliban, and killed far more Afghans than Americans. Is it your position that when the Taliban bombs something, we should finish the job for them?
One of the big knocks I’ve heard frequently leveled against Islam is that it encourages revenge and retaliation, while Christianity encourages forgiveness and turning the other cheek. Abraham Lincoln is reported to have said that one of the best ways to get rid of your enemies is to turn them into your friends. Why are so many Americans determined to ignore these words of wisdom and keep going out of their way to ensure that Islamists continue to hate Christians?
And I wonder how many who read these words will assume that since I didn’t (to this point) express my disgust at those who incite their own people to riot over an imagined insult, I must somehow support them.
Take good care, and may God bless us all.
TGY
PS – let me add one thought – no matter what religion you practice, or claim to, God does not need anyone to defend Him. I think that those who purport to defend God by punishing those they think have blasphemed or otherwise insulted Him are themselves the blasphemers, implying that the Creator all everything somehow cannot take care of Himself.
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You got me on semantics, we are at war IN Afghanistan, not WITH Afghanistan. My mistake, although I did correct it in the same sentence:
“very faction of the people within that nation with whom we are at war”
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Based on the majority of responses to your post, I’m beginning to think that you and I are the only ones aware that we’re actually not at war with Afghanistan . . .
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I think most of the others hear realize it as well. When the talk about “scortched earth” policies I think they are not necessarily referring to leveling the whole country, but rather doing whatever it takes to defeat the enemy we are fighting in Afghanistan.
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Karzai is a drug dealer and as such a harbinger of untold misery and death to millions, and we are keeping him in power.
He never asked for an apology – that was all Obama’s game. Obama is a clown and a disgrace to the American people. We have nothing to apologize for.
As for Obama he can’t be gone soon enough. He is a weak and vacillating, taking the word “passive” to a new meaning – cowardice.
As for the Taliban and the rest of the ignorant and unwashed who infest that piece of waste land they do not deserve one more dollar, one more American life….WM
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What everyone seems to be forgetting in this whole thing is that the Korans were most likely also desecrated by the Muslims in the first place before they were burned by the US. This was just fake outrage and an excuse for violence and the president isn’t helping anything by continuing to look weak. Why hasn’t he expressed outrage for the killings?
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I also heard this a few days ago, from Mr. Boortz. I’d like more definitive reporting on it, one way or another. If it really is the case that the Korans were descrated by detainees, and our actions, even if inadvertant, were called for by the Koran itself or Islamist tradition, then the President’s apology was ill-advised.
Take good care and may God bless us all!
TGY
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From what I have read the military confiscated many books which were being used to send messages to the outside world and a couple of those books happened to be Korans. The books were all lumped together and burned. It is possible that the people who burned the Korans took some pleasure in this, but I do believe they were following protocol and this was not an act to intentionally desecrate the Korans.
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GO NEWT!! No apologies to Radicals who are using us against ourselves….
We must get to know our enemy better…
PLU
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I agree, we are fighting a war against these people and we cannot go out there and apologize for what happens during this war.
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No, we’re not fighting against the people to whom the President isued his apology. I think the people who have been fomenting these riots know the facts and are letting Afghan people die just to make a point that they have that level of influence over them.
Comparing these pigs to barbarians would be a deep insult to barbarians, who, as I understand it, didn’t kill unless they were vanquishing an enemy.
Take good care and may God bless us all!
TGY
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A good point TGY and I agree with you that the rioters are using this as an excuse to commit violence, and most of the victims of these riots have been Muslims. The rioters have no problem committing violence against their own people because they feel it helps their cause. But Karzai’s latest words–while admitting this was an unintentional act–have done nothing to quell the violence.
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Kill em ALL, let Allah sort em out…
Seriously…
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I really displays the facts that nation building does not work, and you can’t reason, or apologize, to a primitive culture.
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Exactly Matt, our apologies mean nothing to them as we have seen.
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We’re using a Western mindset in dealing with these people. We can’t. Their heads are in a totally different, much more primitive place. As one CNN analyst put it, ‘smashmouth politics is the only thing these people understand. Anything else is considered a sign of weakness.’ And what did Barry give them?
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A sign of weakness, of course.
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Are you saying that Jesus’ teachings are inappropriate when dealing with Islamists?
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No, but in a time of war a leader must appear to be strong and by apologizing for the actions of our military Barack Obama has made himself–and the US–look weak and I think the rioters are taking advantage of this.
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I believe there should have been more investigation into why they were burned and under what circumstance. Our media has a way of jumping on something before they know the full details and the harm it might cause. Because of this, we now have dead soldiers. When will they learn the old saying of “excess within control”? We have a mess on our hands. And no TGY I am in agreement, we are not at war WITH Afghanistan, but after this, we just might be.
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I opposed the invasion of Iraq, but supported the invasion of Afghanistan because of the Taliban’s role in harboring that bastard Osama bin Laden. At this point, I don’t see why we should remain, honestly. We kicked the Taliban’s butts out of the country, and I think the Afghans really want us gone, and I think that within a couple of years of our departure, they’ll return the Taliban to power, either actively or passively.
As long as people want to live in a 13th century theocracy, it’s really not our business to try to dissuade them.
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I agree Lou, it seems as if the media has not been exactly responsible in their reporting of this story and we now have dead soldiers on our hands because of it. But even if the media did report the whole story I don’t think it would have staved off the violence we are now seeing. I am also fearful that this might further escalate the war in Afghanistan, I hope that I am wrong but it looks quite ominous right now.
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I supported both wars, but in rhetrospect I wonder about the need to have invaded Iraq. I am happy that Obama finally brought our troops home from Iraq and honestly I think it is about time to end the war in Afghanistan. Once OBL was taken out I think our need to remain there was minimalized. What more can we accomplish there?
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TGY, I agree we don’t need to be there. It seems, however, where ever we go we stay in some capacity, doesn’t it? It really is not our business, you are right. Steve, there is nothing more to accomplish, it will go back to what it was. I believe they are not happy unless they are angry, if that makes sense. Not sure how else to explain it.
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Georgia Yankee – Respectfully, Jesus’s teachings are irrelevant when dealing with an enemy that rejects that theology. It’s time to stop applying western theological cannon to a backwards illiterate people who neither acknowledge or even know there is an alternative to their barbaric theology.
Putting aside the semantics of who we are, or are not at war with, turning the other cheek and humbling oneself to an enemy is a sign of weakness to backwards cultures like Afghanistan – unless of course you seek a self fulfilling martyrdom which in itself is a further weakness of character.
As for the western media – they have turned into nothing more than extreme purveyors of propaganda out of touch with either truth and in many cases reality….WM
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William, Jesus was preaching in a time when his theology was rejected even by his own people, who themselves lived in the midst of a number of religions, all of which were opposed to His teachings. Yet today, something like a third to a half of all people on the planet claim Him as their Savior.
Clearly, He knew what He was talking about.
The problem, as I see it, is that to follow His teachings, we have to deny ourselves what we think will be the satisfaction of revenge and retaliation.
I’m not saying we shouldn’t defend ourselves, but to think that we’ll make friends over there by a show of force is simply stupid. We may make sycophants, but what we’ll make more than anything else is more people burning with their resentment of the US and our western ideals, without even really understanding why.
Compare the relative humanity with which we treated German POWs during and after WWII with the barbarity with which we treated those we captured on Iraqi battlefields. We had the chance to win minds there – and all we did was harden their hearts.
And now, apparently, self-professed Christians are saying, in essence, that Jesus didn’t know what He was talking about.
May God have mercy on us all.
TGY
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Karzai’s problem is he thinks by kissing the Taliban’s ass he won’t be murdered as soon as the U.S. leaves.
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Yeah, I’m sure that after we leave he will be in danger, maybe that is why he is afraid to come to our defense. He is in a tough situation over there.
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Before we went anywhere we were attacked on 9/11, videos of Daniel Pearl and others were beheaded. This all happened right after bill and hillary left the Whitehouse unprotected and computers destroyed to prevent anyone from seeing the abominations they were doing, hillary couldn’t even keep her hands off the dishes. we were set up to be attacked and by us leaving, we will guarantee another major attack. We are AMERICANS and we need to stand up to our enemies and defend our Nation under ONE GOD with LIBERTY and JUSTICE for all. That’s the United States I know.
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