An ex-governor recently said "Never apologize for America". Well, what about

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Operation Ajax? Northwoods? A famous ex-governor recently said "Never apologize for America", at a recent community event of hers.

What about when America does something wrong? Like Slavery? Attempting Operation Northwoods? Operation Ajax? Faking the Gulf of Tonkin incident? When our government commits atrocity... shouldn't it admit what it did and apologize? Shouldn't the most powerful nation on Earth set a good example? Or should we just act like arrogant jerks just because we can? (Arrogantly assuming we'll always be the most powerful right along with that...)

Shouldn't all governments always apologize for all wrongs? And if others don't do it, does that justify America not doing it?
 
There you go again. America should make recompense to those people its public employees hurt, but it should never apologize as a nation. America is a concept, not a person. It is the ideal of a nation that we work towards achieving. We do not apologize for ideals.
 
Do you expect these dolts to know what Operation Ajax was?

America believes in democracy in name only.
Iran will not forgive us for this as long as we keep up the pretense of supporting a free society and doing otherwise.
 
Maybe she's right in her thinking, after all, when was the last time any other nation apologized to the United States for anything.
Did Japan apologize for Pearl Harbor, Did Germany apologize for ww2, and how about Israel for the unprovoked attack, in international waters on the USS Liberty ?
Now for the slavery bit, actually the US did not start the slavery, it was the Dutch slave traders that originally brought them here, and it was their own tribal leaders that sold them into slavery to start with, so let the apologizing start with the Dutch, and then the African leaders that thought nothing of selling their own people for a few dollars.
 
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