How is Jones any better....

The Rev. Terry Jones is as much an extremest as all the others...just because he's christian or pentacostal..he should get a pass?
He's obviously a whack job...

I just simply fail to understand how the extremest type of person can even begin to think that their behavior can possibly bring about any change for good.

I was in High School when the Iran hostage taking occurred. Our HS principal at the time, allowed students to get together, and create a paper Iranian flag and burn it in protest. I wrote him a scathing letter in protest of his decision, and his repsonse to me was he had to do something to allow the students to blow off steam...We didn't live in a town where there was a hostage people personally knew...this was just a group of riled up students and a principal who saw the least path of resistance in allowing degrading behavior to occur.

This type of behavior, then and now, will never bring about either change or peace. Violence begets violence..so save it for something worth the fight...something so critical and important that if blood is spilled, it wouldn't be in vane.

9/11 was a terrible thing and if President Clinton had acted on the intelligence he had, and had not further cut our intelligence departments, it might not have happened. But it did and people have died for the last 9 years in a futile attempt to make someone pay for it. When does it stop?...we need to practice isolationism for a while and allow the rest of the world to take care of it's self for while. We need to take our MONEY, and military and aid workers and go home. Take care of HOME and our starving suffering people first. Boot the illegals out and close the damn doors. Put up the DO NOT DISTURB sign for a while.