Things were going extremely well in getting the Afghan experiment in democracy off the ground. People were actually looking at the US in a positive light.
Until the report came out. The bogus report that is. A report claiming that the US desecrated a koran by flushing it down the toilet. Newsweek has since claimed to retract the claim, but stands by the story. Curious that they are standing by the story, given that other media outlets that have stood by bogus stories have been mightily burned for the transgression.
Well, the media outlet - which I will hereinafter call the errorists - have thrown the Afghan experiment into a real crisis. Terrorists, the real ones with bombs and guns - have capitalized on the bogus story to gain strength and riot en masse. Lives have been lost.
Many more lives may be lost before this is over. And those lives were lost because the errorists ran a story that was too good to be true in their eyes. The errorists believed they had a story that showed the US at its worst, and they couldn't pass up the opportunity to show the world how bad the US was.
Well, we know how bad Newsweek is.
They're the errorists.
And as for the claims that a koran was flushed down the toilet? Well, it seems that the only folks who may have flushed the koran down the toilet were the terrorists confined at GitMo. As a protest against further incarceration.
I hear that anyone who defiles the Koran is subject to execution under Islamic law. If true, does the terrorist forefeit his life?
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