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To: Lane3 who wrote (4510)	2/16/2003 2:34:06 PM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 7720

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To: Lane3 who wrote (4510)	2/16/2003 2:39:30 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7720

That's a fair article. But you know, during WW II Churchill exhibited some of that same cockiness. And the angle of FDR's cigarette holdler often showed real smugness. I think that's what happens to leaders as they approach the ultimate awfulness of war. Nuance DOES go out the window. Live centers on victory as a clear, black-and-white goal. Think Vince Lombardi. Think Bear Bryant. Think any great football coach, any great leader of a cause, once the game, or the battle, or the effort, whatever it may be, starts. (Martin Luther King, a man of peace if there ever were one, had the same sort of single mindedness in some of his campaigns.) That doesn't mean one isn't compassionate. It means that at times the open expression of compassion takes a back seat to the singlemindedness needed for victory in struggle.