This administration is used to making up their own facts. Cranial rectosis doesn't allow you to look around and see what reality is.

Yeah, no kidding... hard to go anywhere without seeing WWJD stamped on everything from key chains to plastic bracelets, dash board icons to bumper stickers.

Of course a lot of the Christian idiots that buy this crap are no different than the Islamic idiots that just want to crush, kill, destroy anything that is not exactly how they feel it should be according to the warped beliefs that have nothing to do with the actual teachings of either faith.

Since the Koran is so sacred to these people (they even have specific guidelines to handle the Koran) the proper comparison is if you took the Ten Commandments or the Lord's Prayer and printed it on condoms, birth control pills, and porn magazines and then dropped them into school yards for kids to pick up.

Why shouldn't they protest?

People in America get to protest when they want to. Why shouldn't Afghans be able to protest, too?

The Americans who did this screwed up. They didn't bother to ask a cultural expert (e.g. someone in our foreign office) to review their bright idea. I have no problem with people from Afghanistan saying, "Hey! Stop insulting our religion!"

It's their human right to do so.

The chickenhawk apologist trolls don't have any balls, Wade.

The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.

It may not be offensive to you or I, but it is beyond insanity for our government not to demonstrate a kernel of cultural sensitivity (not to mention competence) to the region. Why go out of our way to make them dislike us?

The soccer balls were not for infidels but Afghan children.

Even so, you can still take your fucking break!

Speaking of jackasses...

I suppose we would have been more sensitive about putting the face of Christ on a soccer ball for kids to kick around in the dirt?

But perhaps not. I have seen all kinds of crude, cheesy, offensive junk in so-called "religious" stores in America and in Europe.

But a ten-second review of the soccer balls' design by a cultural expert would have told them ixnay on the Saudi Flag.

The problem is, cretins like you and your ilk WANT to be as offensive, as crude, and ugly as possible to the Afgan and Iraqi people who have never done YOU or anyone you know a moments' worth of harm.

Because you're bullies.

Hey Blutus,

I think you might be just a tad sensitive when a foreign force occupying your country, a force which accidently bombed your cousin's wedding party wiping out most of your extended family or stormed your house in the middle of the night and took away your father, the sole support of your family, with no explanation or bombed your village hoping to kill some Taliban fighters, who are long gone---just a couple from the news of our PR problems in Afghanistan.

So you might wonder when the same force rains soccer balls on your town without warning bearing a sacred Koranic prayer and the name of your most revered God. The implication is: You think that my god Allah is only worth kicking around on a dusty field in a kids game.

Does the United States of America have a tin ear or what? Are we so arrogant and to believe that if we decide in our munificence to drop some stupid gift on people that is must be viewed as we view it. Are there no cultural attaches with some rudimentary knowledge of Afghan sensibilities in PsyOps?

yup gc
rumsfeld the expert on war
rice the expert on deplomacy
all those expert generals
brownie expert in disasters

jesus! rove designed a group of mongrals that will f everything up