"If you want to be technical. I guess we broke our word."

Terry Jones

Its utterly tragic that such words could be blurted out by a pastor - going against a promise of not torching the Quran. In fact, he was quoted as saying "not today, not ever". It is because of people as false as him that the Muslim world finds reason to hate Christians.

He took a risk, but at what cost? Were not the deaths and violence he caused in September last year not enough? Must he have the blood of 20 innocent lives on his hands?

And as for the Afghan president, it was highly unnecessary to broadcast the work of a delusional man among his people - most of which would probably have not known too much about this incident if it were not for him. Is not national security more important than entertaining someone else's delusion?