'We are where we are' and
'I am drawing a line under (insert name of event here)',
meaning 'I want you to stop ask me about... '
are modern classic lines for insincere denials,
when leaders and CEOs are asked by journalists
'Do you ever feel the need to apologise?'.
The odd thing is that real apologies
increase the size and esteem of those
that make them when they are due.
But when what you have to apologise for
is a hubris so huge that it will make
the apology stop in the craw of the leader,
and get no further then we should expect
a lot of people with much less to say
about what they have done
to say that less, and say it at length
in every media outlet that will have them.
Still their insincerity is easily confirmed
by the readiness with which they apologise
for every disastrous event
that happened on other leaders watches,
which they had no part in.
Maybe they hope future leaders
will do the same and exonerate them...
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