Ryan's Mixed Message Comment

Let’s talk about Paul Ryan’s September 14, 2012 comment about sending mixed messages. On March 9, 17 Afghan civilians were murdered and 4 were injured when by either a single American soldier or multiples attacked them in their sleep (2 months after 4 Marines peed on Taliban dead and 3 weeks after Qurans were burned). In 90 minutes years of trust were lost and the Taliban discontinued the peace talks as a result. We rush our guy to safety and start excusing the behavior. The ‘Innocence of Muslims’ filmmaker was interviewed and released; he and his family are in hiding. On September 11 on the View I heard a man wrote into Pat Robertson of the 700 Club asking what to do with a wife who belittles him and has caused him to lose his confidence. Robertson said “You could become a Muslim then you could beat her, this man has got to stand up to her and can’t let her get away with this stuff - I don’t think we condone wife beating these days but you can’t divorce her according to the scripture, so I say move to Saudi Arabia”. The 700 Club is seen in many countries and perhaps this too caused the killing of our people. Other governments can’t do anymore than our own when it comes to stopping people from reacting to an incident. It’s unbelievable to me that Americans think our people are more important to us than the people of other countries are to them.

In the US we have plays on Broadway that mock Mormons, TV shows that mock Christians and laws against hate crimes. When the Colorado theater incident occurred July 19 Republicans blamed the Batman filmmaker for the incident. In the case of the Libyan diplomats deaths they don’t blame the filmmaker or YouTube (doesn’t review things prior to their release) but are blaming the President for a lack of understanding terrorists. When it comes to the world-wide-web or syndicated TV in my opinion we need to do something to prevent our people and companies from putting what appears to be hate crimes or false accusations out there. We will never be better than or earn the trust of others if we don’t respect their customs or people. I believe that without our diplomats we wouldn’t be able to maintain relationships with other countries. The reactions of Republicans has caused some Americans to say we should get out of other countries and others to say we should bomb them. Most people don’t blame a country for the act of a few men but extremists do so now I wonder if the Republicans have become extremists.