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That was a pretty stupid thing for the soldier to do. The operating mantra over there is to show that we are the good guys and the AQ/Extremist are the bad guys. Shooting a Quran doesn't go a long way in winning the "Hearts & Minds" of the local population. Our guys are in as much of a perception struggle with those people as they are a military struggle.
Our troops need to show that it is the A$$wipes sending off 10 year old kids and the mentally disabled as suicide bombers (since they are running a little low on people that want to upgrade to 72 Virgins) that are the problems, and not the American Soldier, who has generally performed brilliantly over there.
That wasn't "Free Speech", that was dumb decision that indirectly could get his buddies killed.
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