Why Petraeus Spoke

Earlier this week, Weigel suggested that the press ignore Pastor Terry Jones' Quran burning stunt. Justin Elliott explains why this wasn't possible:

[O:]ne has to understand the context in which Petraeus decided to weighin: At that time, the Quran burning had already been treated as a majorstory in the media in the Muslim world for several weeks. In otherwords, since at least late July, when it started to get attention insome Muslim-majority countries, the story has been doing untold damageto...