Letter Of The Day

The White House blaming Newsweek for the riots in Afghanistan and elsewhere following the story about the desecration of the Quran is a little like blaming the guy who flips a light switch for blowing up a house full of leaking natural gas. If the situation had not been so inflammatory because of Americans abusing and torturing Afghanis and Iraqis at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay, then the U.S. government's denial would have been plausible and not much would have happened.

I do, however, agree with the White House that more needs to be done to repair the damage. But my ideas relating to that have more to do with repairing the gas leak than punishing the guy who flipped the switch.
-Rick Whitten,
Madrid.

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