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Originally Posted by LadyShea
Apparently she also commented on how the tsunami presented a "wonderful opportunity" for the United States to reach out to countries in the Muslim world and build good will. What a tool.
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When the United States came out with it's initial donation for help (which was around $35 million), the press lamented that we were wasting an opportunity to show the world that we were still on the forefront of humanitarian aid.
So then, when Ms. Rice says that it presented a "wonderful opportunity", the press lamblasts her... even though in the first example, and the second example... they both meant the same thing.
I'm sure that we all say things that we later think "
You know, I could have rephrased that." or "
Hmmm, I forgot to mention (x, y and/or z)" and fortunately for us, we don't have a few billion people reading the transcripts of what we wrote a few minutes after we've said it.