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"It's now an international issue." I like Petraeus, but he holds a lot of the responsibility for this getting out of hand. He should have publicly called the
by hugh4life 16y ago
"It's now an international issue."
I like Petraeus, but he holds a lot of the responsibility for this getting out of hand. He should have publicly called the guy a meaningless nut who shouldn't be paid attention to, and then privately called him up and kindly told him to knock it off... I'm getting tired of the media sensation around this idiot and the world leaders who are preening over it.
- mminolt 16y agoI don't think Petraeus is to blame. What can the dude do other than to call people to calm and dignity. A nice gesture of peace coming from a military man! But the media and the whole hype machine we all feed with our tweetmania about stuff like that definitely helps fuel the fire in the belly of such loosers as the Gainsville Koran burners. I can't wait to hear Chomsky on this!
- prawn 16y agoI wonder if he (and others) should have completely ignored the issue. Clinton, for example, made a couple of mentions of it in recent speeches, also saying that she wished it weren't in the media, but it were her mentions of it driving the media stories. Take away those things and it starves the media fire of fuel. And, of course, the media themselves aren't going to stop publicising it because issues like these (the mosque in Manhattan, blah blah blah) are moneymakers and talking points. You have to wonder if enraged protesters abroad would even know about this nut-job "pastor" of "world outreach" (laughable!) if he had been more or less ignored from the beginning.