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Put yourself back in the Sixties, aging boomers, and you kids listen up, too. Remember Pete Seeger's famous song, "Where have all the flowers gone?" You boomers may even have sung it a few times. Now flash forward four decades. We're going to adapt the lyrics to fit the new circumstances. It's spring and we know where the flowers are. Today the question is, where have all the leaders gone?

Yes, yes, we all know the frighteningly serious threats we face -- to our national security, to our financial security, to our future. There's no need to list them but there is a pressing need to do something about them, and to do something about them requires what I've been writing about for weeks now: leadership, my friends, leadership.