You are all over the place in your ruminations about the European Union’s plethora of presidents, but you still end up by concluding, rightly, that a single president representing the Union, along the lines of the moribund Lisbon treaty, would not be able to do much about its deeply-ingrained disunity (“A Surfeit of Leaders,” April 11, 2009). “Welcome to Lilliput,” you muse in this connection. Indeed. Barrack Obama’s request for Europe to become more serious about energy security would perhaps be supported by such a president, but he or she would have little traction when it comes to supporting Turkey’s membership, an essential ingredient of energy security in Europe. Be that as it may, it is good not to harbor misguided hopes about Europe’s place in the world. Lilliput it has become. And Lilliput it will remain.