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members in Africa alone (more than ten times the number of Anglicans in the U.S.), how can Archbishop Akinola’s flock be derided by the Times as a “breakaway sect”? And how can the Times promote the American Anglican Union with its increasingly irrelevant and downright bizarre heterodox views and shrinking membership as “mainline”? br> — Bill Erdmann /p> p> THAT’S WHY br> Re: Jeffrey Lord’s The President: An Appreciation : /p> p>The trouble with that Shaw quote is the unstated assumption that one’s dreams and thoughts end at that question, “Why not?” The truly great presidents have, apparently unlike the present administration, carefully and completely considered why not, at least for their chosen means. The president that, perhaps rightly, finds no reason the Middle East cannot be at peace, but then blindly stumbles ahead on a course that plainly, to anyone with eyes to see, will end contrary to that goal, does not embody the ideal stated by G. B. Shaw. Rather listen to your own William Tucker in his recent article. A change of course, however distasteful, is good if it can truly bring about the peace we seek.