pastor who plans to burn copies of the koran this saturday on the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks. commander general david petraeus says it would inflame tensions and endanger the lives of u.s. troops. today, secretary clinton was asked about it in a policy speech, and she blasted the idea. we are a country of what 310 million-plus right now. i mean, it is regrettable that a pastor in gainesville, florida with a church of no more than 50 people can make this outrageous, and just distressful, disgraceful plan, and get, you know, the world s attention, but it is the world we live in right now. sarah palin is weighing in as well, and posting this message on the facebook page a short time ago. quoting, i hope that pastor terry jones and the supporters consider the ramifications of
growing military industrial complex. this is the moment for us nine years after 9/11, to take stock of how tall the enemy actually is. otherwise, we will find ourselves in the same situation with saddam hussein where we thought he had nuclear weapons and on the verge of the conquest of the middle east and turned out to be entirely false. we will find ourselves with the soviet unions where in the 80s we thought the soviets would take over the world and they were on the verge of collapse. so it is important to fight the enemy, but it is important to diagnose how strong the enemy is and not the overreact. fareed will have a lot more on this sunday morning and fareed zakaria airs at 10:00 a.m. eastern on cnn. thank you, wolf. all right. bring in john zarrella from gainesville, florida, where the koran burning is to take place. john, the pastor is under
reporter: and you don t belief that blood would be on your hands if u.s. troops happened to be, be injured or worse? actually, we would of course be very moved and very sad by that. we would not feel responsible. reporter: jones says that radical muslims are to blame and not him, and they are the ones he says that he is targeting. our message is clearly to the radical element that they should back down, they should stop, and we are not going to be controlled by fears and threats. reporter: but everyone we talked with in gainesville says it is jones who is the radical. we stand together as a community to demonstrate that one small group of people bent on promoting hatred and misunderstanding does not represent the people of gainesville or the people of this nation. reporter: more than 300 people turned out for a noon interfaith prayer service at a