Middle East mess is not our business

Bob Baker, Las Vegas

Monday, Sept. 24, 2012 | 2:01 a.m.

Outrage is the main word on every newspaper front page and on most news magazines covering the uprising after the anti-Muslim film that apparently mocks the religion.

As Americans, we fully believe in our First Amendment rights of free speech and that we can worship any religion or anyone claiming to be the next prophet who comes down from the mountain.

But, there is a line that exists. For example, you can’t walk into a movie theater and start screaming fire just to watch the people stomp all over one another trying to get out of the theater.

So what’s going on here with hardly a word from the media about who these people are who knew there would be a reaction from their film? What was their ulterior motive for doing this? Do they want to pick up the pace for America to go to war with Iran or all Muslims in general? Who paid for this? Who benefits from this?

These are questions that we have a right to know the answer to since we are being pulled into this nightmare of unending wars in the Middle East.

I’m sick of hearing about this region of ancient vendettas where everyone is the enemy of someone else.

It would make our Founding Fathers puke with our involvement with what is looking more and more like Armageddon.