Shipwreck shows absence of effective leadership
Letters to the Editor January 20, 2012 6:50PM
The cruise ship Costa Concordia lies on its side off the coast of Giglio Porto, Italy, last week. | Tullio M. Puglia/Getty Images
Updated: February 23, 2012 8:14AM
The Italian cruise ship fiasco, in which the captain rammed his ship, the Costa Concordia, into a reef on the Italian coast, demonstrates, yet again, the pathetic failure of leadership that exists not only in the United States.
This dreadful failure of fatherhood — not a sexist concept, but one indicating an absence of effective leadership — may be more widespread than we had imagined.
For example, Italy’s recent leader, Silvio Berlusconi, was hardly an icon of a commanding presence of character. Small consolation. Don’t we — and the 4,000 ill-fated passengers on that cruise ship — deserve better?
Leon J. Hoffman,
Lake View
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