Let me suggest that one owes loyalty to one’s family and friends, to common decency, and to nothing else. Render under Caesar what you must, keep what you can, and swear allegiance to nothing. Here I do not mean just the government, but the zeitgeist, the miasmic fetor of trashy culture, the desperate consumerism, the entire psychic odor of a society in decomposition.

And this from a self-described linguistic pedant.

A Korean in Korea, if apologizing in a similar situation, would use the Korean grammatical equivalent of ‘I was hasty, and so I am sorry’. Americans might say something like ‘I’m sorry - I was hasty’. As unconditional statements, they’re quite clear.

Your comment above, differs from these, and I’m still not sure if you’re sorry. But that’s okay - I know that brushstrokes can get too broad sometimes.

What was good enough for Paul is good enough for me.

He was demonstrably writing about himself, and I commented on such?

Rather, what’s with you bringing in the idea that I’m somehow connected to a purported activity here of ‘comments here expressing views short of i) american jingoism and ii) total disconnection with korea [being]…taken to be support for robert kim’?