"As world supplies of food, water, and oil become more scarce," Syer continues, "Californians must select governors who are willing to speak hard truths, willing to resist entrenched interests, and willing to forgo short-term popularity.
He looked straight into our eyes and calmly pronounced that they were 'corrupt,' an 'institution above the law.' When we asked him, trying to mask our astonishment, what was really happening, he said that Libya was 'going through the pangs of birth; it is a difficult and painful process, but God willing, virtue and truth will prevail.'".
"If you're willing to hear the truth about the hard road ahead, and the rewards for America that truth will bear, I'm here to begin with you this new era of truth-telling," he said.
If you're willing to hear the truth about the hard road ahead, and the rewards for America that truth will bear, I'm here to begin with you this new era of truth-telling".
Under the law, even though you have the millions on your side for the moment, just on person in possession of the truth, & willing to talk, can bring the whole show to a halt.
Yet virtually no one who might know the truth appears willing to talk publicly.
"We saw how priests, called up by the commission and asked to help seek the truth, were willing to set up the list of 10, 15, 20 victims they abused during boarding school while the commission knew only of one," he said, according to the BBC.
But the case is emblematic of the way India's growing middle class, egged on by a lively news media hungry for sensational stories, is increasingly unwilling to accept these seemingly immutable truths and willing to fight back.
The savvy Petraeus invited journalists everywhere, spawning the best kind of free publicity: profile after profile that portrayed him in heroic terms as a scholar-soldier always receptive to hard truths and willing to engage in self-criticism.
The truth: They're willing and Abel.
The truth: He's willing, if not Abel.
