Every community will have problems, mistakes, and tragedies. Some will be unavoidable, and others preventable.
When an American community faces something terrible, there’s no better response than to embrace what America represents so well and abundantly: accountability, respect for individual rights and liberties, and a willingness to admit mistakes and seek help.
Other choices may seem tempting, as they often have been for Whitewater. Those other choices are foolish and wrong.
America’s way of individual liberty, free commerce, and peaceful and friendly relations with others will always be our best recourse, of which we can be confident and proud.