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...early afternoon, Reagan was on a conference call flung from Catoctin Mountain through Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia to his top people. The size of the tragedy was known by then. "I want a statement sent to Iran that we deeply regret this incident," he said simply. Later, when there was quibbling whether "regret" was an apology, Reagan ended the argument. "It's an apology as far as I am concerned. We're a moral nation, and we take responsibility for our mistakes...
...Dubai. Something had gone monstrously awry, yet Americans seemed to respond almost grudgingly: there were guilt-stricken voices, yes, but they were distressingly few, and there was almost no compelling sense of shame. What the nation offered in the face of inadvertent tragedy was dry, formulaic expressions of official regret, the diplomatic equivalent of preprinted condolence cards...
...explain and justify rather than putting a period after his grief: "but under the circumstances . . . I took this action to defend my ship and my crew." The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral William Crowe Jr., used a similar yes-but formulation in saying, "We deeply regret the loss of life here, but that commanding officer had a very heavy obligation to protect his ships, his people...
Medical School officials and colleagues ofRowe, while expressing regret at his departurefrom Harvard, said the Mt. Sinai post representeda wonderful opportunity that was too good to passup...
Family members and friends of such victims probably regret, as Rowan should, the fact that the handgun ever was in the closet or on the bedroom table, so easy to reach at a moment's notice. Funny thing, the NRA never mentions these cases in its brochures...