Not all Appologies are Equal…
February 13, 2007I was watching the Today Show this morning and they were talking about how Presidential hopeful, Barak Obama, had “mispoken” and said something along the lines of, “3000 lives have been wasted in Iraq.” (Couldn’t find the statement video, but found this related article…). He was appologizing for saying that and said, what he meant to say was “3000 lives had been wasted because they haven’t been honored properly - by putting them in a situation where they can’t win.”
Two things…
(1) That “correction” isn’t any better, IMHO. You can’t win every battle, and you can’t win every war… but to say that they’re wasting their lives is rediculous - I won’t even comment further on this.
(2) I find it funny that a politician can “appologize” on something like this and everything will be forgiven, but a celebrity like Michael Richards makes a racial outburst during a recent club appearance and, although he appologized and is seeking professional help, he’ll never be forgiven. One could draw the lines between the Democrats and Republicans on this, but I’ll leave that discussion for another day…
My point is that we are willing to forgive some but not others. I fail to see why we make the distinction, when one is just as offensive as the other.
BTW, I’m not supportive of either set of these men’s actions — I just use them as an example to illustrate my point.
He shouldn’t have apologized…
Any life lost for an UNJUST cause=potentially great life wasted.
That’s referring to the future hope of doing something better with their lives…you know…coming home, having children, maybe inventing a cool gadget or writing a book or even teaching in an elementary school…what might have been. *heavy sigh*
In this P.C. world it is sad that people can’t mean what they say and say what they mean without drawing ire from all sides.
I don’t want to turn this into a debate on the “value” of the Iraq war… We all are entitled to our opinions.
My only point was that while some people can appologize and everything is okay, others are not given that chance.
THAT, my friend, is what’s truly sad…