Petraeus Doesn't Think Highly of Burning the Koran

He calls the action "hateful, extremely disrespectful and enormously intolerant." Thus far, it's resulted in three days of violent protest in Afghanistan. Clearly, much of this is sparked by the Taliban, who are simply taking advantage of the stupidity and arrogance of Jones and Sapp. And, it also appears that Mr. Karzai is using the incident for his own purposes; he was the one who informed his countrymen of the burning.