I really do not know what he thinks is going on over there especially now, but I am hoping he is being told this by his aides who are completely lying to him or he is in fantasy land.
Bottom line, the books were burned and for good reasons. Preventing terrorism and stopping the Taliban from accomplishing their goals are reason enough to destroy Korans that were being used to pass intelligence and attack plans instead of the peaceful religious purposes the Koran was intended to serve.
I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you.
"Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him; better take a closer look at the American Indian." - Henry Ford
Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges; When the Republic is at its most corrupt the laws are most numerous. - Publius Cornelius Tacitus