French Army chief of staff resigns after shooting incident

France makes plenty of mistakes (as do all countries) but wow, what a contrast to what we see in the US. For all of the US right-wing bashing, France did what we used to expect from our leaders in America. Someone in charge actually accepted responsibility for a mistake. In business, we hand out hundreds of millions to failed leaders and after 9/11, we hand out medals to the people who were supposed to be protecting the country. How many senior people resigned or were sacked after 9/11? Let's not even get into the 9/11 Commission and their sorry excuse for an investigation when the President, THE PRESIDENT for gosh sakes, gets to take his VP in the room for his testimony as if he was incapable of answering on his own. How pathetic was that?

Even today, where are all of the Republicans who strutted around, proud as peacocks that they the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act would usher in a great new era. It did, just not for the better. We can even find an apology from Mr Gramm, Mr Leach or Mr Bliley let alone those who voted for it as we watch $1 trillion disappear from our economy. Have we really lost all sense of accountability? If it exists, I sure don't see it.