What are the “elites” waiting for to recognize that they were wrong?
It is not about humiliating them;
they were often chosen by similarly light voters.
But leaders must change course or give way.
Because their record can be read in the Awful Epoch: she has lost her smile and fears her neighbor.
The blessed times of peace had produced the best, between 1880 and 1914, with the Belle Époque, its bombings, its joyful carefree attitude.
This same peaceful time has today created the worst, with its retreats and dishonors.
In
The World
, Alain Juppé started a mea-culpa on the blindness of power, about the Rwandan genocide.
The former Minister of Foreign Affairs explains: “
We lacked understanding of what genocide was and what its finding involved.
(…) The truth is the strongest.
This honesty should be everyone's, on all subjects.
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Juppé could also extend his introspection.
The statesman was in fact wrong not to have
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