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Truly Sorry

Thursday, May 06, 2004

By Neil Cavuto



A lot of people think President Bush should apologize for this whole Iraqi prisoner mess.

Funny, but I don't remember hearing anyone say the deviants who strung up those four American contractors in Fallujah (search) should apologize.

Or for that U.S. military convoy that was blown to bits checking out a supposedly sacred mosque. No one's apologizing to them.

Or to the families of those earliest American prisoners of the war (search), two of whom were butchered and hacked in captivity. No apologies there.

Or to all those Palestinians I remember dancing in the streets on September 11, after 3,000 innocents were senselessly slaughtered here. No apologies asked for. No apologies given.

Or to those scores of United Nations workers injured and killed in a Baghdad terrorist attack for simply trying to keep the peace. No apologies from those who couldn't keep the slightest hint of humanity.

Or Aban Elias (search), the American engineer taken hostage on Thursday. Where are the "we're sorries" for him?

It is not surprising that we take the actions of a few to make a grander, false point about the many. Why should it be surprising that the world would prefer to trump pictures of American soldiers abusing prisoners over American soldiers helping kids and curing the sick?

No, it's far easier to say "screw you," than simply "thank you."

There is much we do wrong in this country. But at least we have the guts to admit it. We deal with it and correct it. It's a shame that so many outside this country haven't the guts to acknowledge it. Or even critics in this country, who haven't the decency to withhold sweeping judgment on it.

And that's sorry, indeed.

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Amen

I second that AMEN.

You go Neil!!!!!

Neil always says it so well.

All I can say is....sometimes you have to take the high road...........

love it

Just because many, many apologies weren't given when they should have been doesn't negate the need for apologies for these atrocities. What if nobody ever apologized for anything because someone else failed to? We have to be decent even if others choose not to.

sunnyday,

Sometime soon, take those "rose-tinted glasses" off and see things as they ARE, not as you would LIKE them to be...perhaps, then, you will find that appeasement and groveling only emboldens tyrants, and those who follow them.

I don't have on rose-colored glasses. I simply believe in taking the high road. I don't see apologies as weaknesses. I see them as admitting to wrongdoing.

Then, sunnyday, the Muslims have already won their "moral victory", at least as far as your stance is concerned.

I call 'em like I see 'em...the ONLY thing a patriarchal, brutal, 7th Century nomadically oriented mentality understands is FORCE.

"Power achieved is power perceived."

stormchazer wrote:A lot of people think President Bush should apologize for this whole Iraqi prisoner mess.

Funny, but I don't remember hearing anyone say the deviants who strung up those four American contractors in Fallujah (search) should apologize.

Or for that U.S. military convoy that was blown to bits checking out a supposedly sacred mosque. No one's apologizing to them.

Or to the families of those earliest American prisoners of the war (search), two of whom were butchered and hacked in captivity. No apologies there.

Or to all those Palestinians I remember dancing in the streets on September 11, after 3,000 innocents were senselessly slaughtered here. No apologies asked for. No apologies given.

Or to those scores of United Nations workers injured and killed in a Baghdad terrorist attack for simply trying to keep the peace. No apologies from those who couldn't keep the slightest hint of humanity.

Or Aban Elias (search), the American engineer taken hostage on Thursday. Where are the "we're sorries" for him?

It is not surprising that we take the actions of a few to make a grander, false point about the many. Why should it be surprising that the world would prefer to trump pictures of American soldiers abusing prisoners over American soldiers helping kids and curing the sick?

No, it's far easier to say "screw you," than simply "thank you."

There is much we do wrong in this country. But at least we have the guts to admit it. We deal with it and correct it. It's a shame that so many outside this country haven't the guts to acknowledge it. Or even critics in this country, who haven't the decency to withhold sweeping judgment on it.

And that's sorry, indeed.

Watch Neil Cavuto's Common Sense weekdays at 4 p.m. ET on "Your World with Cavuto."

Wow, what a great argument Neil. So original, too!

Now, WHAT, pray tell, would be the point in demaning an apology out of the Palestinian wackos and Islamic extremists that Neil mentioned? The bottom line is that we (I) exect our soldiers to be held to higher standards than the scum that wishes harm on us. Pissing on and engaging in sexually suggestive poses with the detainees is something I would expect bin Laden to do, and I KNOW for a fact that we are well above him. I personally don't care if Bush apologizes...I don't expect him to be fully aware of the actions of every single US military personnel on earth. Whoever was behind the actions (ie. the people organizing and carrying out the humiliation procedures) should have apologized for sure.