http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/violence-in-wake-of-koran-incident-fuels-us-doubts-about-afghan-partners/2012/02/26/gIQAgc3qcR_story.html
I picked this article this week because I was looking through the news section on google and when I was reading through this, it felt like it was only showing once side of the story. It was about how the recent violence of Afghan has created a lot of tension between the U.S., as well as NATO. two high-ranking NATO officers were killed by an Afghan security official, which destroyed the relations that were built up. The article describes existing tension and the overlap of insults causing this event. Protests began and threw a grenade inside a U.S. base, wounding seven american troops and the protests were very violent, claiming 25 Afghan lives. The Afghan President, Hamid Karzai, initially reacted in outrage, but became more peaceful to try and calm down the situation.
George Jaffe has been writing for 17 years, 12 of those writing about military news for the Wall Street Journal since 2000. However by reading this article, I feel that he does not go into the actual burning of the Koran, which is what caused the initial burning. It was linked to another article explaining it though. The religious ferver of the people is very difficult to describe. However, it is similar to how America does not permit the burning of the flag. There was never an explanation to why U.S. Officials went and burned the copies of the Koran for.
It firsts talks about some of the reactions of the event, describing little effect that it could have, and then it goes into how future events will turn out and just how much it will change because of the event that has passed in this one week by a few individuals. Just because of this events, the relations between international organizations and countries came toppling down due to this incident. He also describes just how difficult it will be to recreate the trust that had existed before.
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