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New at Reason: Steve Chapman on a Sorry Complaint about Obama

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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