Tim Howard's dual-national comments demonstrate poor leadership

Tim Howard's comments about how some of the dual-nationals that have recently played for the USMNT had a "lack of passion" have spread like wildfire in the past few days, with the response forcing Howard to attempt to backtrack and say that some of the dual-nationals, like Jermaine Jones (who not so coincidentally called out Howard) did have passion.

USMNT fans by now are likely numb to hearing negative comments about dual-nationals, from Abby Wambach to Bruce Arena and now Howard. But these comments, while essentially the same, somehow come across as even more unnecessary, pointless and harmful than the same comments said by two other important US Soccer figures. Arena had to eat crow on…