Paul Beston writes in The American Spectator on Jane Fonda's recent non-apology apology. And once again we see that ageing members of the baby-boomer generation were very aptly named as they continue to demonstrate the qualities of adolescence rather than adulthood even into their advanced years.
About the infamous photos, Fonda writes in her book, "I simply wasn't thinking about what I was doing, only about what I was feeling," a neat distillation of the ethos of the 1960s counterculture. It was, she told Stahl, "the largest lapse of judgment that I can even imagine," but not, pointedly, a sin or equivalent moral transgression. Her error, it seems, was merely that she allowed herself to be caught on film.
She has been reminded about the consequences of her actions for 33 years by Vietnam veterans and POWs, and yet her awareness of suffering is still limited to her own, most of it self-inflicted: "I was the only person I could treat badly and consider that morally defensible."
For Fonda, like Bill Clinton and others of their ilk, it's all about the journey that they're on. The wreckage they leave behind is mere collateral damage in their ruinous quest for "meaning."
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