Procrustes Stretched
"intuition and imagination and intelligence"
obama should stop taking those trips overseas and bowing down
George W. Bush And Apology - The Dish | By Andrew Sullivan - The Daily Beast
Obama has never apologized for America, merely at times acknowledged its mistakes (like torturing prisoners against clear prohibitions in domestic and international law) alongside its strengths (like being one of the the most stable and benign democracies in history). I don't see this acknowledgment of fallibility and error over time as some kind of craven weakness, but actually the kind of strength that a successful, self-confident democracy can deploy when necessary. Democracies can admit when they have screwed up; dictatorships cannot. I regard that as a strength. Romney for some reason regards it as a weakness.
But even George W. Bush differed from Romney on this. And so it was that after some US troops were found using the Koran for target practice, George W. Bush apologized to the prime minister of Iraq:
"He apologized for that in the sense that he said that we take it very seriously," White House press secretary Dana Perino said. "We are concerned about the reaction. We wanted them to know that the president knew that this was wrong."
I thought obama was going to bring peace to the world and part the waters?
Dangerous and deepening divide between Islamic world, West | Reuters
Where can we find this promise?