It is very difficult to apologize in the world where good and evil dominates. However, if you hurted someone and did not apologize, you would not be able to repair relationship with the one. If the the mutual trust remained to be broken, there would be only power/violence left.
The president had made his way to one of the cities where his country had dropped atomic bombs 80 years ago. This visit by an incumbent president had been unprecedented. |
"What we did was justified, therefore we do not owe an apology." |
All of the presidents from the past continued to say the same thing. People all over the planet trembled with fear and focused all their efforts on developing nuclear weapons and increasing military power. |