The article talks about the integrity and the character necessary to be succesfull in life. It says that if you want to have success you must be able to value every action of your life. You always have to be able to give a helping hand to people who need it. The most important and great people, in the crucial moment of a decision they draw upon their wisdom. So above all they have integrity.
The aspect of leadership covered is the behaviour every succesfull person have and the main aspects of their character.
The author about leadership say that character is what you are. The succes is something you can achieve. If you achieve it without integrity and character it is nothing, merely shadow.
What the author says affects everyone, every action of every people in the world. In fact if everyone acted with integrity and character, in everything s/he does, it would probably be a better world. There would be less violence, less corruption, less bad and more good.
The important thing of the article is that it gives everyone a lesson of life.
I completely agree with the author in fact I always try to do what I think is right not what is better for me or for people around me. "weakness of attitude become weakness of character" said Einstein, and I completely agree. If you get used to something is not right for you, or your character then you become weak, a fake.

1. I think he is a completely out-of-mind person. Probably he was unhappy and unsatisfied about his life. He probably needed friends or people around him that he didn't have. It scares me because if a person can do that in a military place someone could do it easily in a mall or in a hospital.
2. I think he is a terrorist, for his strange beliefs, but I don't think there was an organization behind him.
3. Probably he was always discriminated for his religion and his race in his career. This discrimination probably brought him to believe what he believes, and to do what he did.
4. I don't think a lot of Muslims have his same feelings. He probably was affected by deseases and he had very strange and extreme feelings and beliefs.
5. I think the only fault we can give to the military is to have discriminated him. He probably felt like his fait was discriminated, that's why his beliefs were so strong and angry. Anyway there were no signs he was going to do that. Maybe military psychiatrists should be monitored by someone if it is really so stressful as Ragan says.
6. Someone had do it. She was the brave one who did it.