The Trouble With Apologies - Why won't Bush say he's sorry?

Time Magazine ^ | April 19, 2004 | Charles Krauthammer

[Mr. Thorne]

"Never apologize, son. It shows weakness."

John Wayne.

= )

My heroes have always been cowboys...

[lainde]

Bravo Charles!

[SavoyyTruffle]

Yes, I have heard from people who found out the hard way that they are on such lists.

Name them. Otherwise, I don't believe one word of this.

Me either. Sounds suspiciously like Kerry's "foreign leaders" or the host of imaginary playmates made up by the Dick Gephards and clintonoids of the demo-world.

[epigone73]

Agreed!

this apology business reeks to heaven. imagine, a good man, trying to defend the rights of a bunch of mincing subversives and worse, is called upon to apologize to them - to THEM - for destroying our enemies.

what's worse is that this happens all the time, and far too many good men submit to this moral blackmail and give these parasites even more power.

Never apologize; never explain.

[Travis McGee]

Good point. What army? It evaporated, to condense later in small drops like Fallujah.

[longtermmemmory]

The left must have been conditioned by Clinton's endless appologies for his actions and appologies for things he had no business appologizing for.

[Michael121]

Well in the final Plot to kill Abe Lincoln the mother of a friend of Boothe who owned a boarding house in which the plot was planned was.... HANGED.

Her crime was being the mother of one of the conspirators.

No one has been hanged.

Times change. But it seems your boy Clinton had his FBI enemies list and just when was he going to begin to round up his Political enemies?

[Michael121]

Says It all.

[Qwinn]

Very good article. Bookmarking.

Qwinn

[John O]

Did F.D.R. apologize for Pearl Harbor — a military attack on a military base by a military force already at war? No. He placed blame entirely on the empire of Japan, then promised to reduce it to rubble. Which he did.

And which he should have. It was entirely Japan's fault.

Did President Bill Clinton take responsibility — let alone apologize for Oklahoma City? No. In fact, he laid the dead at the feet of "loud and angry voices in America today," joining a chorus of liberals in blaming the bombing on the likes of Rush Limbaugh and Newt Gingrich for allegedly encouraging militias.

To this day I believe that OKC was a clinton plot designed to discredit the right. clinton should have apologized (and should be burning right now after being executed for treason)

In August 1945, Harry Truman made the weightiest presidential decision of the 20th century. He later said he never lost a night's sleep over dropping the Bomb on Hiroshima. For that, some critics to this day condemn him for lack of reflectiveness — and worse.

The residents of Hiroshima were enemies. Why lose sleep over killing enemies in wartime? It's what you are supposed to do.

[goldstategop]

Exactly. John F*ckin' is a Waffler. And we cannot afford a waffler as President in a wartime situation.

[7thson]

During that press conference, I do wish he would have said to that "reporter", yes, I am sorry for one thing. I am sorry that I gave you the chance to ask such a dumb question.