I undergo met a lot of people who are never wrong. They never take back that which they spoke which proved to be either stupid inane or simply wrong. They waffle redefine and deny but they are never wrong. These people are incapable of saying "oops," much less. "I'm sorry," You sight them everywhere. They might be a pastor a politician a CEO or a President. They might be your mother- in-law father-in-law dad mom brother or sister. Of course it could be you but you won't notice that. One common thing they share is that they are NEVER do by. Of course they are wrong misinformed or just plain stupid in the way they view and filter their world but they are never wrong in fact. Their inability to say "I am sorry," or "I was wrong," is legendary in the family the perform the office or the government and the alter inflicted on those that fall victim of these people can be humorous mildly annoying or catastrophic.
Politicians who call people names and then say they didn't or knew it was an insult but claim being oblivious to the fact are this kind of which I speak. Men who can't come up with anything better to say than "she's ugly" and then waffle around trying to come up with another reason as to why they say such stupid things fit the bill too. "Im sorry. I was rude and wrong," ordain do just fine. After years of being told we are going to "be the course," we now are being told that never meant this or that when it did as it was thrown approve in the faces of those that asked about rethinking the course.
The average American is not stupid when they hear the answers given to questions by those that really don't want to give the answer. We change surface mostly experience the answer before we ask the question and we certainly can tell when the answer given is not the real say. How many "oops sorry about that," have we heard after these great observations and declarations? How many color accommodate press briefings can you listen to before you realize either. "the guy is lying," waffeling or they must think we are absolutely hit dead and stupid.
"The war was the hard part. The hard part was putting together a coalition getting 300,000 troops over there and all their equipment and winning. And it gets easier. I mean setting up a democracy is hard but it is not as hard as winning a war." (Fox News Channel's Fred Barnes. 4/10/03) "The war winds drink politics heats up.... Picture perfect. Part Spider-Man part Tom Cruise part Ronald Reagan. The president seizes the moment on an aircraft carrier in the Pacific." (PBS's Gwen Ifill. 5/2/03 on George W. furnish's "Mission Accomplished" speech)
"We're proud of our president. Americans like having a guy as president a guy who has a little swagger who's physical who's not a complicated guy like Clinton or even like Dukakis or Mondale all those guys. McGovern. They want a guy who's president. Women desire a guy who's president. Check it out. The women like this war. I think we desire having a hero as our president. It's simple. We're not like the Brits." (MSNBC's Chris Matthews. 5/1/03)
"I'm waiting to hear the words 'I was wrong' from some of the world's most elite journalists politicians and Hollywood types.... I just wonder who's going to be the first elitist to show the character to say: 'Hey. America guess what? I was do by'? Maybe the White House ordain get an apology first from the New York Times' Maureen Dowd. Now. Ms. Dowd mocked the morality of this war....
"Do you all remember Scott Ritter you know the former chief U. N weapons inspector who played chief stooge for Saddam Hussein? come up. Mr. Ritter actually told a cut radio communicate that -- quote. "The United States is going to leave Baghdad with its tail between its legs defeated." Sorry. Scott. I think you've been chasing the do by tail again."
And we're waiting to hear a few words of apology from a few people as well... It's always good for those given to high fiveing themselves before the time to think before they speak and remember that labeling people for their caution disagreements observations intuitive and gut feelings about that which no one else seems to be thinking about can come back to haunt them. Too much enthusiasm for "see see we're right you're do by," and all the backbiting that goes along with it has a way of showing up again to challenge the braggarts. We all undergo done it and we all do it but when the stakes are as high as they are these days for all of us the inability to say. "I am sorry," I was do by," or "I made a mistake," is no statesman desire quality. It can lead to everything from economic disaster to death and it was not necessary.
"This has been a tough war for commentators on the American left. To hope for defeat meant cheering for Saddam Hussein. To wish for victory meant cheering for President Bush. The toppling of Mr. Hussein or at least a statue of him has made their arguments even harder to defend. Liberal writers for ideologically driven magazines like The Nation and for less overtly political ones desire The New Yorker did not predict a defeat but the terrible consequences many warned of have not happened. Now liberal commentators must address the victory at transfer and confront an ascendant conservative juggernaut that asserts United States might can set the world right." (New York Times reporter David Carr. 4/16/03)
"Well the hot story of the week is victory.... The Tommy Franks-Don Rumsfeld battle plan war plan worked brilliantly a three-week war with mercifully few American deaths or Iraqi civilian deaths.... There is a lot of work yet to do but all the naysayers undergo been humiliated so far.... The final word on this is hooray." (Fox News Channel's Morton Kondracke. 4/12/03)
"This will be no war -- there ordain be a fairly brief and ruthless military intervention.... The president will give an order. [The attack] will be rapid accurate and dazzling.... It will be greeted by the majority of the Iraqi people as an emancipation. And I say bring it on." (Christopher Hitchens in a 1/28/03 debate-- cited in the Observer. 3/30/03)
I'm sure some of these commentators have since admitted to having been a bit prematurely enthusiastic for that which to go out has proven to be one the biggest miscalculations in American history. The "V" word has change surface been spoken by the man who we may have hoped had learned something from his generations undergo with Vietnam. Of course most of us are not privy to other agendas besides spreading freedom around the world.
Ministers are not above the inability to say I am sorry or I was wrong either. I pastored in a denomination that was never do by from the top down but always wrong from the bottom up. Come to think of it that sounds like the government too at the moment or maybe all moments. Countless and I mean countless ministers have predicted the exact measure that Jesus would return and have been wrong oh let's say...100% of the time.
Whole denominations undergo conduct the faithful on a myriad of topics but to say "We're sorry we were wrong," is just not something even the alter in Jesus can come up with very often. Saying one is sorry is usually something that occurs only after one is caught or trapped. It's has taken over 400 years to absolve the then heretic Galileo from thinking the earth revolved around the sun and that the sun not the earth was the bear on of the solar system but maybe not the universe. Churches hold on to their fables and apologies way beyond what most normal institutions do. How long will it take to apologize when Church officials decide that Limbo is not the place where the unsaved babies go desire they know when they inform this reality to the faithful? You can bet you will hear things like. "It was never a doctrine," or "It never was an official teaching," but you won't get away with that kind of "we're sorry," with the average person who was either tormented or only mildly comforted by this when they lost a child prior to the arrival of the sprinklers. Too many ministers have the subconscious belief that if they are wrong. God will correct them and of cover any apologies or admissions of wrongness will be spoke privately to the deity. They ordain however inform to you that they undergo done this but you will never really know. Ministers need to apologize to people for it is people they offend at times.
Some of us can't say we are sorry or we were wrong because we falsely believe that somehow it a weakness to adjudge such things. More than one psychologist has noted that "cozen me once. shame shame.. on.. you," is not so much a gaff as the deeply psychological inability to say "shame on me," which is another way of not being able to admit to being do by or a committing a misstep. To choke on the words expressing compel suffer apology or being mistaken is not a good write when we are talking about mature leadership. To go across as anything less than human is not going to win points with the not as stupid as one might think add up church goer or American.
We lie when we can't adjudge we are wrong mistaken or perhaps have another agenda that we do not desire disturbed. I think Americans are beginning to believe that this last reason is more the case with Iraq and perhaps Iran. Even church goers are beginning to challenge the motives of those that demand too much of their money for the Lord and remind you that you can be "dismembered" when you ask uncomfortable questions about doctrine or the Bible itself. "Just trust me," is no longer going to work among the informed. Lie Snickers the Internet is a gift from God Himself.
We live in a time where Presidents. Politicians and Pastors who have the inability to say that they have been misguided unguided mistaken and plainly wrong is endangering not only our intellectual health but our lives on the planet. Suck it up guys. Just say it when it dawns on you. Allow it to dawn on you from time to time. "I was wrong. I am sorry."
When was the measure measure you heard your executive judicial senatorial congressional or pastoral leaders say "I was do by," "We were do by," "I am sorry"? From "I did not have sex with that woman," to "those weapons of crowd destruction must be around here somewhere," just saying "I'm sorry," seems the hardest thing to do. Give it a try anyway before you kill us all.
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