11.  And without American leadership strong action is unlikely, and aggression and genocide will prevail for the first time in Europe since the Nazis.

12.  Annan moved into the emptiness created by the failure of American leadership against Saddam Hussein.

13.  At that point, the administration decided that absent decisive American leadership in Bosnia, war and horror would continue there, threatening to destabilize the region more broadly.

14.  Baker seemed to argue that the Bosnia crisis requires American leadership, but not American troops.

15.  Both believe in American leadership.

16.  Above all, the credibility of American leadership is on the line.

17.  Afghanistan is so fragile that it will need vigorous American leadership to ensure vast aid, a major security presence and brutal diplomacy to force the factions to cooperate.

18.  All the world would question American leadership.

19.  Bosnia taught us that without American leadership the international community tends to be rudderless.

20.  But American leadership, they argued, could make the difference.