By Ben Shapiro
2/29/2012
President Obama apologized this week for the U.S. military's accidental burning of Qurans in Afghanistan. "I wish to express my deep regret for the reported incident," said Obama. "I extend to you and the Afghan people my sincere apologies. ... We will take the appropriate steps to avoid any recurrence, to include holding accountable those responsible."
The Quran burnings prompted massive riots in Afghanistan, as per the Islamist handbook, page 248, which, incidentally, may be the only book other than the Quran published in most Arabic-speaking countries. U.S. servicemen were murdered. The Qurans were only burned in the first place because terrorists were writing messages in them to their friends. None of that stopped Obama from making his apology.
Obama sure taught those Afghani terrorists a lesson. He taught them to keep on being psychotic a-holes.
Let's say you're driving on a city street with your daughter in the car. You accidentally rear end a sketchy looking fellow in a pickup truck, scraping his bumper. He immediately climbs out of the truck, baseball bat in hand, and proceeds to wallop your little girl in the head. Should you apologize for rear ending him? Or should you try to protect her from the second shot by killing this psychotic monster?
The liberal answer is an odd version of the legal eggshell-skull approach to torts -- you leave the victim as you find him. From the liberal perspective, this means that if you scraped a guy's bumper, it's your fault if he goes berserk and murders your child. The same holds true on foreign policy: It was our burning of the Qurans that caused the psychotic behavior. The solution is not to burn Qurans and to apologize as early and as often as possible.
The real solution is something different: Kill the bad guys, or imprison them. No apologies. There's no way to avoid setting off psychotic people; sooner or later, they're going to go off and hurt somebody. The key to stopping crazy people is to go after them pre-emptively, to hunt them down, identify them and take them out of play.
If we don't, we embolden them.
Why not be a psychotic a-hole if you're going to be treated with kid gloves? In fact, you will only be treated with kid gloves if you do act like a psychotic a-hole. Here's why: Liberals assume that people who are insane don't mean what they say -- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, for example. Once those demented and evil people carry out their threats, liberals then revert to typical eggshell-skull theory -- they were crazy, so we should have left them alone. It's a win-win.
It's actually a win-win-win -- the psychotic a-holes avoid vengeance because, after all, they're lunatics. We don't want to punish people for being crazy. They simply can't control themselves!
The result of all of this is a world run by psychotic a-holes. We are supposed to cater to them, so as not to offend their sensibilities. We are supposed to avoid vengeance, since they're not responsible for their actions. And we're supposed to give them anything they want, to keep the nuts happy.
These people aren't nuts, though. They're evil, and they're opportunistic. When they see weakness, they strike. It's as true for everyday criminals as it is for Islamists around the globe. We cannot surrender to any of them. But our president already is.
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Obama Says His Apology “Calmed Things Down” in Afghanistan
Posted by Ben Shapiro Mar 1st 2012 at 5:17 am in Foreign Policy, Islam, Islamic extremism, Middle East, News, Obama, Soldiers, diplomacy
Yesterday, President Obama fired back at critics who claimed that his apology to Afghans for the military’s accidental burning of Korans was a sop to extremists.
Appearing on ABC News, he stated that the apology had “calmed things down.” He continued, “We’re not out of the woods yet. But my criteria in any decision I make, getting recommendations from folks who are actually on the ground, is what is going to best protect our folks and make sure that they can accomplish their mission.”
If only that were true. Obama hasn’t just apologized – he’s threatened punishment for the servicemen who accidentally burned the Korans (which terrorists had been using to coordinate with one another). And Obama’s apology, which he gave a full five days ago, did nothing to quell the violence in Afghanistan. The riots continued unabated, and two US military advisers were shot after the apology.
The fact is this: these riots generally peter out on their own. They don’t require florid apologies from the president of the United States. The problem with the apology isn’t that it made rioting worse (it didn’t). It’s that the apology gives the bad guys incentive to continue acting insane, as I wrote in my syndicated column today. Next time they see something they don’t like, they’ll simply riot and wait for the West to surrender. It’s worked before, after all.
Leave it to our self-centered president to claim credit for the riots ending. Fortunately or unfortunately, Obama’s words do not make seas recede or Muslim extremists stop burning things and killing people. All they can do is betray our unwillingness to hold evil people to account, emboldening them.
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