Let's Keep Our Enemies Straight

Summary


Why should the commander of America's forces in Afghanistan care about a paranoid pastor of a church with 50 members in Florida? Welcome to the Internet age.

The problem began when Pastor Terry Jones of the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville announced plans to burn copies of the Quran on Sept. 11 to memorialize al-Qaida's 2001 terror attacks. Burning the Muslim holy book was "neither an act of love nor of hate," he insisted, but a warning against what he called the threats posed by Islam.

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Let's Keep Our Enemies Straight

Gen. David Petraeus thought that was a terrible idea. "It could endanger troops," the U.S. commander in Afghanistan said in a statement issued Monda...

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