As it has been in the news quite a bit the past few days, the accidental burning of Korans has been on my mind as of late. While I understand that the burning of religious texts can be seen as an affront to ones religion and it being done by people who seem to share very little in common with the average Afghan can can not help but make it worse, I find it perplexing that the outrage is so strong. It was an accident after all, for which the President of the United States apologized for in an election year. It was an accident unlike the death squads, the torture, the corruption, the desecration of corpses and the 10 year occupation that can and is associated with American forces in Afghanistan.
But it's the Korans they are mad about. Something has gone terribly terribly awry in that country, and I don't think we know who exactly is to blame.
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