i agree.
it is well to look in the mirror, which is your counsel. and i try to do so.
indeed, i have made the point myself about neoconservative bullying; but a country may also reasonably defend itself. unlike iraq, the us didn't enter afghanistan without cause.
but as a general rule, defending the one by reference to the missteps of another is no defence at all, if without the other, the one lacks justification. it is reasonable to isolate the imams and treat their actions for their own worth and not as if they are only some dark reflection of american error.
they poured their hatred into the discourse of islam long before america had a drone. for years, they floated it across the water meadows of bengal and on down into the heart of india. they have sprinkled it like rain upon Israel. coptic christians in egypt have felt its force. and today it sprung up in a buddhist temple in bangladesh. there isn't a religion these folks don't hate and encourage outrage against.
something rotten in there. something worth opposing.
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