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It isn't as if the Enron crowd has invented the it's not us it's them excuse, such as: Vietnam could have been won if the liberal media hadn't sapped Americans' support for the war; the media's reporting on the secret or unwarranted spying programs or secret detention centres is giving aid to the terrorists; all the bad news reporting out of Iraq is providing a false picture of the progress being made there.
Successful people by nature have great confidence in their abilities and don't allow obstacles to get in their way. It is results that often define how history judges. Whatever faults and failures he had, Churchill's place in history if assured.
Johnson, Nixon and GWB won't be so lucky.
Perhaps greatness is the abilty to know exactly where the line and how close you can come to it without going over. Some successful CEO's manage it well. Lay and Skilling didn't and will pay the price.
