Clinton issues warnings on Afghanistan, Syria

[jaxx]

February 26th, 2012
08:41 AM ET
Clinton issues warnings on Afghanistan, Syria
By Elise Labott, CNN Foreign Affairs Reporter

RABAT, Morocco (CNN) - Criticism of President Barack Obama's apology for the burning of Qurans in Afghanistanis not helpful, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Sunday in a wide-ranging interview with CNN.

"I find it somewhat troubling that our politics would enflame such a dangerous situation in Afghanistan," Clinton said of the complaints by Republican presidential candidates and some experts about Obama's apology.

<..> At least four American troops have been killed in apparent revenge attacks in the past week, and dozens of Afghans have been killed or wounded in protests about the incident.

"We are hoping that voices inside Afghanistan will join that of President Karzai and others in speaking out to try to calm the situation," Clinton said. "It is out of hand and it needs to stop."

http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2012/02/26...?hpt=hp_t1

The GOP campaigns are ramping up the rhetoric and endangering our troops. They need to shut up about this and let the diplomats handle it before they get anymore troops killed.

[Andy823]

These idiots gat mad as hell when Bush was in office his policies were criticized, they were irate and said that making such comments, especially about the wars, would hurt the troops, yet now it's OK? These idiots are showing that they don't give a damn about the troops, all they care about is winning a nomination in the republican primaries. They only care about themselves.

Where are the republican leaders who condemned these things when Bush was in office? Why are they not worried about our troops?