Reciprocal sympathy Needed People the world over genuinely grieve with Americans for the civilians killed in the September attacks. The problem is that US citizens have little reciprocal feeling for US engineered human tragedy elsewhere. The US needs to be aware that even among the countries it considers its subordinates and even within affluent nations the US considers its compliant allies. there is growing resentment and impatience toward American arrogance. Who outside the US shares the view apparently held by all Americans that their President is the leader of the free world? The U.S. should be careful how it proceeds.