Have the Terrorists Won?

Have the terrorists won?  Okay, allow me to ask the question differently.  Have the Muslim extremists been successful in their quest to strike fear in the hearts of people worldwide?  Have they been able to suppress freedom with the threat of violence?  I think we would have to answer yes.

They have the leaders of the most powerful nation on earth (U.S.A.) cowering to their demands.  Think about it.  Some nut threatens to burn the koran and the muslim world threatens violence.  How does the free world respond?  We have everyone from a high profile general to the Secretary of Defense running scared.  "Please don't burn the koran.  We don't want to upset the muslim world."

What really chaps my hide is that CNN published a story in May of 2009 where the U.S. Military burned Bibles in Afghanistan.  The general intercepted them.  We can't have Bibles in Afghanistan.  Now he could have returned the Bibles to the churches that sent them.  But no, he feared that they might find their way back into Afghanistan.  We can't have that.  Bibles in Afghanistan might upset the peace-loving muslim community and provoke them to violence--not that they are violent people.  So, he burned them.   Don't you dare burn the koran.  But the Bible?  That's not a problem.

I am embarrassed by the cowardly actions of our leaders.  How about you?