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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (120307)	11/23/2003 3:14:02 AM
From: D. Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

In some situations, it is a good strategy for the leader to follow. Sailing competitions or market leaders, for example. Tack to your rivals, and you'll stay ahead. That's the European vision of leadership. Don't be innovative or try anything risky - be reactive and conservative and run with the herd. That's no way to run a nation at war, which fortunately our leadership seems to understand. Derek

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (120307)	11/23/2003 9:07:02 AM
From: GST	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 281500

You take arrogance and contempt for other countries as signs of leadership. When we drop a bomb or dismiss other countries as "irrelevant", you think we are providing leadership. But we have never been more isolated. Nobody will follow us -- we do not lead anybody. With every new act of arrogance and aggression we are more profoundly isolated and hated -- these are the roots of terrorism. We are not winning a war on terrorism -- we are working to help terrorists establish the foundations of anti-American sentiment around the world that will sustain them for generations and will haunt our children and our childrens' children. The damage to our leadership done in the last two years will follow us for many, many years to come. Leadership? No, we abdicated that role in the international community when we dismissed them all as "irrelevant".