Blaming No One
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Dan Inc. Whitman. Blaming No One
Introduction
Reader’s Manual
Not the Gbagbo I Knew. April 6, 2011
With a Thousand Pictures, Nothing is Still Nothing. April 18, 2011
Of Apes and Arms: When Brains Prevail. April 27, 2011
The Bark is Worse. April 28, 2011
Is There a Fool in the House? April 28, 2011
My Moment with P.J. May 1, 2011
Isidorus Rex (1907-1989) May 7, 2011
Amazing Grace and... a Touch of Vodou. May 9, 2011
Pax Vobiscum Alex. May 18, 2011
Mission Possible in Munich. May 20, 2011
Why is This Man Smiling? June 4, 2011
If Music Be the Food. June 5, 2011
Coping with Opus. June 5, 2011
Totentanz at Orly. June 6, 2011
PD on the House. June 11, 2011
Many Would Rescue, Few Would Help. June 18, 2011
Herodotus of Arlington, Virginia. June 18, 2011
Looking into the Sun. June 20, 2011
Ten Out, Ninety to Go. June 22, 2011
The Case for Aid. June 26, 2011
The Importance. June 27, 2011
When Slava Met Yo-Yo. June 28, 2011
At Peace with Nukes? June 30, 2011
Looking Back and Fourth. July 5, 2011
Death Warmed Over in Yaoundé. July 7, 2011
A Summer Read for Our Time. July 8, 2011
Boom to Bust to Deductible: Hegel Knows Best. July 11, 2011
Smith-Mundt, R.I.P. July 13, 2011
Guinea on My Mind. July 22, 2011
Konaté’s Speech. July 22, 2011
Peek-a-Boo. August 3, 2011
In Boca di Lobo. August 4, 2011
Getting to YES. August 7, 2011
Let Them Show Us. August 12, 2011
Trapezoids. August 28, 2011
Again to the Breach. September 18, 2011
Another Chance for DRC. September 21, 2011
While They Slept. September 23, 2011
Sandy and Henri. September 24, 2011
Jacques Among the Living. September 27, 2011
At It Again. October 19, 2011
Sarith’s Story. October 31, 2011
My Southeast Asia. November 2, 2011
Blaming No One. November 13, 2011
Bad Boy Gbagbo. December 13, 2011
In a Name. December 15, 2011
An Ambassador Speaks. December 18, 2011
All Power to the 164th. December 20, 2011
Christmas in Lunel. December 31, 2011
Zelig at INF. January 19, 2012
“In Some Village, An Idiot Goes Missing...” January 23, 2012
Open Season on War Crimes. February 7, 2012
Stalin Without the Bullets. February 9, 2012
Lavrov Crunched. February 13, 2012
Shovels to Anguissa. February 16, 2012
Chekhov’s Garden. February 20, 2012
An Artist’s Finest Moment. February 22, 2012
Stolen Sandwiches. March 4, 2012
The Devil’s Due. March 8, 2012
UNESCO’s Bad. March 12, 2012
The Window That Went Around the World. March 14, 2012
Declinism in Decline. March 18, 2012
Lunch with Joe. March 19, 2012
Our Next Bubble. March 20, 2012
This Week in Africa, Good News and Bad. March 27, 2012
Cosmogony in a Coffee Tin. April 5, 2012
Inuits, Whales, Bach. April 24, 2012
Malamud and Me. April 27, 2012
The Sinologist in Each of Us. May 4, 2012
At the Feet of the Master. May 7, 2012
Sony Lab’ou Tansi (1947-1995) May 8, 2012
Lowering the Volume. May 9, 2012
“Please Go Away” May 15, 2012
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What If?
Imagine Michel de Montaigne under an 800-word limit. I don’t mean to compare my little pieces or myself to the one who started us on sharing personal reflections. Yet the thought keeps coming back. Montaigne would have (a) chafed against a limit so artificial, (b) tossed it aside disdainfully, or (c) taken to it comfortably. All we know for sure is that, in his case, rage or indignation would not have been factors.
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Crowley took the point in his gracious way. I never saw him again. I wish I could say, “...And the tone of State Department statements became clearer and more substantive following my comment,” but that would be self serving. I can’t prove it, but I think the voice of the State Department did become more clear during that period. Crowley should get lots of credit for this, I accept none. The Department actually said things and people did start to listen. It’s always an imperfect process, one step forward, three steps back, as during SecState Clinton’s first trip to Beijing, where she gave the Chinese government a pass on human rights. But this was a work in progress, and she got it right the second time, and should be noted for doing so.
I like my State Department colleagues a lot. They are smart, they try hard, and they care.
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