To: Bruce L who wrote (21961 ) 10/22/2004 2:05:52 PM From: cnyndwllr Read Replies (1) | Respond to Bruce, two things. First, you mistake the principle of leading by your own example , with leading by attempting to force others to follow your example. You then reach yet further on your secondary premise that they can then lead others by example. Surely you can see that the reshaping power of success is in what others choose to emulate, not in what you attempt to force on others.The Iraqi insurgents are good only for long distance sniping and the ambush. The foreign jihadists, being volunteers along the lines of those in the Spanish Civil War, clearly fight better. But there is no real reason why - if the western world has the will - that the superiority evidenced over the past 400 years should not be demonstrated again.
