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Apologizing In President Clinton Speech
In President Clinton speech it sounds like he is apologizing to the people of the Rwandan genocide like he is the one who did it to them. But when he says “We owe to those who died and to those who survived, who loved them, our every effort to increase our vigilance and strengthen” it makes it seem like he was apologizing for something he did himself, but he did not commit the Rwanda genocide. Also when he says “We owe to all the people of the world who are at risk because each bloodletting hastens.” This sound like he is apologizing because it sounds like he owes them something for what he did. But President Clinton didn’t do anything to anyone. He is apologizing in this speech when he had no part in the Rwanda genocide. And I can get why

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