O Intermitente
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segunda-feira, março 29, 2004

Richard Clarke

William Kristol escreve sobre o pedido de desculpas de Richard Clarke aos familiares das vírimas do 11/09.

There have been occasions in the past when government officials properly took responsibility for actions under their direction that went terribly awry. Janet Reno accepted responsibility for the deaths in Waco in 1993. John Kennedy took responsibility for the Bay of Pigs in 1961. In those cases, apparently reckless U.S. government actions directly caused unnecessary deaths. On September 11, 2001, al Qaeda killed 3,000 Americans. It would be no more appropriate for President Bush to apologize today than it would have been for President Roosevelt to apologize for Pearl Harbor. Richard Clarke's pseudo-apology has cheapened the public discourse.

posted by Miguel Noronha 10:37 da manhã