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This contrasts with our vehement tendency to expend the greatest efforts in order to shirk our responsibility and shift it instead onto factors outside our control, allowing us to excuse ourselves for the embrassing situation we fell into, .. to save face, protect appearances, defer to emotions, and concern ourself with proprieties, morale, flattery, and sensitives, instead of doing the necessery work of calling things by their names and fixing responsibilities where they belong, saying to the ones who failed "you failed" and the ones who are incompetent "you are incompetent." ... we ascribe disasters to fate, destiny and nature, that is, to factors outside our control and for which we cannot be held accountable.
Wir erinnern uns dazu an die nach dem 6 Tage Krieg von arabischen Regierungen gestreuten Behauptungen die Amerikaner und Briten hätten mit Luftschlägen auf Seiten der Israelis eingegriffen.