(due to problems with blogger Katuturaenglish, I exceptionnally post this entry in the French section, after all, languages brotherhood is also a human value, don't you think so?)

(this should have been posted on September 2nd 2003)
Read, with pleasure, in "The Observer", International Edition,
31st August 2003, page 24, the thinking of Richard Ingrams
in the wake of the squabble between the BBC and the British Government,
concerning the motives for going to war in Irak!



"Just say you're sorry! Why is our Prime Minister so incapable
of admitting that he may have made a mistake?" asks Richard Ingrams.

Ingrams points out that journalists may publish stories, and, at times,
have to apologize for errors admitted. Or, as is the case concerning Blair
and the media, they may be asked, forcefully by the Prime Minister,
to admit mistakes (to cover his own lies).
The Prime Minister lied publicly to justify war in Irak.
"Today, writes Ingrams courageously, what Blair claimed as true,
was false: no weapons, no linkages, no uranium, no 45 minutes threats.
Yet it would never occur to Blair to do what he wanted the BBC to do:
admit that he got it wrong".



The haunting question keeps nibbling at my mind's door: "Why can't the powerful,
or better still, why can't the people in power, in any system,
the ecclesiastical included, ever admit having made a mistake?
Claiming infallibility.

Why do they preach forgiveness and are unable to ask forgiveness?
And pray, in the anglican as in the reformed as in the catholic churches
the Our Father together?







publié par claire marie à 08:18