Followers

Leadership this, leadership that. It seems Americans want to make leaders even out of their preschoolers.

Oftentimes the US has singled out the leader of a country in the global South, disregarding real flaws, and given him/her its full support only to have this bite it in the behind eventually.

I wonder if, being so concerned with growing and finding and supporting leaders (incidentally a word which lacks a good translation in several languages), the US has not developed a certain blind spot.

I wonder if, any country, Afghanistan included, can stand on its own without legions of participants -- women and men, hard-working and full of integrity who go about their (civil servant or not) jobs and their lives and taking care of their families, being the cement of the nation, and never shining in any spot light.

The generators being unreliable and all.