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They preach vulnerability, humility, contrition, intimacy, sharing, weeping, tenderness, and surrender.
The LAT reports that White House insiders want the President to publicly discuss the issue, this time clearly expressing "contrition" for his inappropriate activities with then-intern Lewinsky.
Given the prior day's discussion of the wrongs of slavery, Clinton's remarks about the Rwandan genocide indicate, says the WP , that his African sojourn is becoming a "contrition tour."
The WP sees, "not strictly speaking an apology, but a remarkably all-encompassing statement of contrition."
Others have charged that the president's contrition regarding the U.S. failure to prevent genocide in Rwanda in 1994 was cheap and hypocritical, since it was a considered decision, not (as he implied) some kind of oversight, and there is no reason to suppose the United States will decide differently if it happens again.