In a surprise twist, today's prize is a tie between President Obama and Congressman Ron Paul - for the same reasons.
Several days ago in Afghanistan, American soldiers burned several copies of the Koran. They resorted to this action not as a political statement or to inflame the sensibilities of the Islamic community but to prevent terrorist prisoners from further covert communications. The prisoners in question had already defaced the Korans by writing in them in code (writing in the Koran is prohibited under Islamic law).
The burning of those Korans resulted in riots throughout Afghanistan, several American soldiers killed by the very Afghani soldiers they had helped to train, and Afghan President Karzai demanding an apology from America (which President Obama gave).
So it's pretty obvious that Obama gets the prize for offering an apology when he should have been demanding one for America instead. What does this have to do with Ron Paul? His foreign policy, if taken to its logical conclusion, would have America apologizing not just for the burning of the Koran, but for our very existence. In a world that boasts a culture that will gladly kill over the defacing of a religious book, we must demand respect through strength or risk losing everything.
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