March 8, 2010
Among many conservatives, the rule is: Being
American means never having to say you're sorry. But as Steve
Chapman explains, Obama no more deserves condemnation for
recognizing our dark moments than does George W. Bush, who traveled
to Latvia to publicly disavow the post-World War II deal that
consigned it to the loving embrace of Josef Stalin. No government
is perfect, Chapman writes, and no nation is exempt from the
temptations of self-interest and hypocrisy.
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