Love means you don’t apologize
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United States Ambassador Harry Thomas Jr. found himself apologizing to Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario, saying, “I am sending you a response expressing regret for my comments. I should not have used the 40 percent statistic without the ability to back it up. I regret any harm that I may have caused.”
Last Sept. 22, 2011 Thomas had told a judicial conference on human trafficking he estimated “maybe up to 40 percent of foreign men who come here come for sexual tourism and that is unacceptable.”
That quickly hit the fan.
Variations in media had him announcing “that corrupt officials were involved in a very visible sex trade, and challenged the legal profession to eliminate the ‘scourge’ also participated in by Americans..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20111011com4.html
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