Rice urges calm, calls Koran desecration abhorrent

[Happy Monkey]

Originally Posted by Guyute

I find it sadly ironic that here are dozens of us chiming in on this "messing with the Koran" and upsetting Muslims, but no-one is the least upset that these fanatics are kidnapping, torturing and killing civilians in Iraq.

What you find "ironic", I find "untrue". To each his own, I guess.

No Western media source expresses outrage over these heinous, cowardly crimes, which happen almost daily, but when a report surfaces about how America is treating its prisoners, in what appear to be relatively isolated events, the whole world goes absolutely bananas.

Events with photographs are isolated, not events.

As for the higher standard America is held to, would you have it any other way? Would you like it if these stories came out, and people said, "Oh, well, that's America. What do you expect?" Would you prefer for people to ignore it because they have no reasonable expectation that we would take steps to stop it from happening?

I hold my country to a higher standard than others. As should every citizen of every country.