Blame

While we're tossing blame about over the Koran burning...

Some obscure preacher in Florida burns a Koran.

This has an effect half a world away and some UN personnel are murdered over it.

Who told them?

My next door neighbor burns all sorts of things in his burn barrel.  I suppose a Koran could have ended up in there; but I have no idea because he didn't brag about it and nobody ran to transmit that he had to the third world just as fast as the photons could be bounced off the satellite.

The media giving Rev Jones the spotlight is why the dark-age people of Afghanistan were even aware of the burning.  If they'd ignored Rev Jones there'd have been no word to send.

BUT.

Rev Jones' little stunt killed nobody.

Telling the locals in Afghanistan killed nobody.

The locals killed someone and for the flimsiest of reasons.  Even more barbaric, they didn't even take out their anger on the person who offended them; they attacked people who had nothing to do with the burning at all.

This is why we should not bother with the place below 30,000 feet MSL.

That MIGHT be a terrorist camp, there's two bricks touching... GBU-31 on the way.  Lather, rinse, repeat.

To deal with things in a civilized manner, there has to be a civilization on both sides.  A society is not necessarily a civilization.

I support the M.I. answer.  I support the Curtis LeMay method.