Clifton Ross: I Recant

[dweller]

I published an analysis which turned out to
be in error

VHeadline guest commentator Clifton Ross writes: On November second, as Kerry bowed
(dis)gracefully out of the battle for the presidency, in the very moments in which he made his concession
speech, I wrote a brief analysis of the post-election situation of the US and the world and I immediately
sent this report out.

My analysis was premature so I have no alternative but to recant.

Readers outside of the US may not be accustomed to hearing an Amerikan (as distinct from
"American") recant, acknowledge error and offer an apology.

Indeed, we, as a people, are known to walk with our noses above the rabble of our continent, and the
world, never deigning to consider the possibility of any association with the population of our hemisphere
below the Rio Grande but reserving for ourselves alone the appellation, "the Western World."

We who live in the angelic realms of the north, we, who speak from our throats and our minds, live above
and beyond the carnal realm of heart and body. Perhaps it is that we are Protestants and believe we live in
direct communion with God in Heaven by the power of His Holy Spirit while other poor, frail humans
that they are susceptible to the ways of the flesh.

How else could I possibly explain "presidents" who never commit errors, journalists who tell only the
"objective truth" and a nation, Christian and obsessed with a manifest destiny, that claims a right to define
international law exclusively in terms of its own "national interests?"

And so now, in the wake of the grave error I committed, I humbly ask my Latin American
brothers and sisters to pardon me for having prematurely, even if innocently, published an
analysis which turned out to be in error.

MORE HERE

the followup recant to this article

dp

[alevensalor]

1. Why would he recant it?

n/t

[dweller]

2. did you read both articles?

linked in the post.

dp

[JennC]

3. Picking up steam! Excellent!