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#1336:Questions about Leadership : Morse replies
From: oloffsonram <oloffsonram@globelsud.net>
each leader has to have his own attributes and personality, depending
on the times...if politicians don't believe in a system, the system
will never work...if a president doesn't believe that the prime
minister should run the government, he'll never choose one that wants
to...each leader has specific needs that they have to address on behalf
of their electorate...success encourages the electorate...while george
bush was making the world "safe for democracy", bill clinton came along
and said "its the economy dummy".... sometimes a country needs a
revolutionary and sometimes a country needs an administrator... a good
revolutionary is not necessarily a good administrator or economist or
negotiator....haiti needs social stability, infrastructure, education,
investment, a functional economy and a functional government...who can
provide this...who can negotiate haiti through the roadblocks and
impasses... a couple of years ago we had a parliamentary election in
haiti and very few people voted... no one was able to rise above the
muck muck of partisanship and resolve the problems at hand...maybe they
didn't want to resolve the problems...maybe haiti doesn't need a
parliament...maybe its not ready yet...maybe with proper leadership,
either from within the parliament or from without, the parliament could
have been saved...maybe it wasn't worth saving...each period in history
requires very special qualities in a leader...haiti needs simultanious,
multi-directional advancement... haiti needs to attack on all
fronts...is it possible?....is there a candidate that can co-ordinate
the necessary manpower to improve the economy, the infrastructure, the
educational system, the insecurity issue, build a functional government
and do it all at once?...does haiti have to compromise on some of these
necessities?....some leaders, when they can't solve particular issues,
create an enemy and blame all the belt tightening on the "great
enemy".....some leaders are there just for the money or power...they
give little weight to the advancement of the country or its people or
its culture (take what you can, while you can, and get out)...look how
quickly castro turned cuba's literacy rate around, on the other hand
people aren't permitted to freely express themselves in cuba....look at
clinton's economic miracle, meanwhile kids are walking into schools and
shooting their classmates....
national sovereignty isn't really the issue at this point.. haiti is a
soveriegn nation, period....haiti, however, is not self-sufficient, so
the leadership has to negotiate, barter, trade, buy, borrow with and
from other nations in order to gain self advancement... and of course
the more you need something, the more expensive it gets..
a great number of haitians believe that the process is going to take
too long or its not going to happen at all...they're discouraged..
they'ld rather just get a visa and try their luck elsewhere...make
their money elsewhere, get their education elsewhere, give their
children a chance, somewhere where there's more hope....like the
dominican republic(mass deportations) or miami(death at sea or
imprisoned in detainment centers)....
a leader has to help the people remain optimistic through tough times
(f.d.roosevelt, winston churchill, nelson mandella, mohatma ghandi)...a
leader must have commitment,must communicate well, must have a sense of
integrety and of course, must "bring home the bacon"...
richard morse