Are we witnessing the worst ever leadership crisis at world's political stage?

Answer 1

No. The incompetence of the world's leaders during the August 1914, crisis that led to WWI, and destruction of their political & social world is far & away the worst in history.

We won't know how bad the failure of the West to deal with present rise of Pan Islamic religious aggressiveness will be, until we can see it through some decades of history.

Answer 2

The axis of evil comment by Bush really but put America at a point to where direct diplomacy with N. Korea and Iran are out of the question. And Bush ratcheted up the tension levels with those countries literally overnight.

We are so bogged down militarily in Iraq, and to a lesser degree in Afghanistan that we can't really use the threat of the "big stick" in the marginalized diplomatic efforts.

I have no qualms with what the Israelis are doing. The are a sheep among wolves and must annihilate those wolves that have a hankering for the taste of sheep.

As far as the leadership of Iran and N. Korea, these two gentlemen are unpredictable maniacs.

However, I must place the worst leadership on countries like China and Russia who are nothing but obstructionist to every single effort to minimize the threats of both Iran and N. Korea.

I am proud that even France and Germany seems to be siding on the side of right, as opposed to just siding on the side of neutrality.

Spain's, new leader was photographed with a Palestinian head scarf on the other day - something that I find to be pandering to terrorists in the most extreme. Pandering will get him no where, but undignified.

Answer 3

ha ha ha no not really, English bloke getting off a plane waving a piece of paper from Germany.......Korea, Vietnam, Cuban missile crisis, Crimea.....the whole British Empire thing. I think we are a lot more media led now, we have the ability and the facilities to understand and hear about a lot more that is going on in our and other countries. We are more open to the public view than ever before with cameras in political chambers and people selling stories to the press; couldn't happen a hundred years ago but the leadership and the scandals were probably the same

Answer 4

At the very least, its the worst leadership crisis since WWII. The Western leaders are almost all paid for by the Rothchild, Murdoch, and Rockefeller empire. They make more money off of war than they could ever hope to make during peacetime by supplying both sides with weapons for a nice profit, then they make even more money when the both the "loser" and "winner" have to take out more loans (usually in the form of Treasury notes) to rebuild all the destroyed infrastructure.

Answer 5

Are we? Well, for our time - yes. But, I can't say it's the 'worst ever.' It is difficult to assign that label to any era. As for the current political climate - we, the citizens, hold in our hands the power to end this charade that corporations have devised, but there are too many sheep out there who are afraid of losing their jobs, blah, blah, blah and therefore, we (as a whole) are left to watch as the leaders struggle to come to an agreement on what is important - money, power, or survival?
Many people spend more time complaining about things and they fail to acknowledge that they, too, have a responsibility in the political process. If we put it all on the leaders, then we are only passing the buck, because we must be accountable for our parts in the play.
If you have the opportunity, check out these two books:
1. Ishmael, by Daniel Quinn - this book introduces a novel device to educate a consumer-culture-man about the history of civilization and why things are the way they are - it is an entertaining read.
2. The Twilight of American Culture, by Morris Berman - If ever you had issues about the commercialization of humanity, this book will give you the ammo to stock your bunker with.
One more, if I may:
3. Demosclerosis, by Jonathan Rauch. This book looks at American democracy and the calcification of government - it points the finger at the core of the problem, and, guess what? WE are the problem - because we have come to expect a free ride in one form or another.
What are YOU doing to tackle this crisis? HMMM?

Answer 6

Probably not. But, Bush's refusal to listen to the intelligence left behind by the Clinton administration and his policy of ignoring warnings, cutting taxes for the rich, and removing protections of our environment have led to 9/11, the pointless war in Iraq, skyrocketing gas prices (hmmm, why would Bush want gas prices to rise?) and a steadily dying environment.

Bush was well aware of the repurcussions of his actions and ignored it. Now, we will do what we always do and overreact and create a overly powerful democratic government which will screw things up the other way. We need to wake up and vote for a balanced government with members of both extremes and a majority of moderates. And, I bet you will see the USA rise to world superpower again.

Answer 7

If you are talking about the United Nations - absolutely.

They demand Saddam disarm and allow unfettered inspections and he doesn't.

They demand Hezzbolah disarm after Israel withdraws; and they withdraw but Hezzbolah has missile launchers within 120 yards of a UN checkpoint.

They can't even prevent a radical dictator like the one in North Korea from building nuclear weapons....

YES the UN Leadership is pathetic. Its scandolous affairs with Saddam in the oil for food program aside its agenda is ideologic (socialist) and their disdain for the success of capitalism is obvious....yet they don't mind being bought off.

Answer 8

I think we are. The UTTER HYPOCRICY Bush and Blair are demostrating blows my mind. Invading Iraq is ok to bring about democracy, and the terrorists are evil. However Israel can launch a huge offensive in a democratic Lebanon over 2 soldiers.

Answer 9

I think we are the leaders of lebanon, syria, and iran are all making matters worse by not knowing or not wanting to find a solution.

Answer 10

sounds pretty close. Rome had it's dark days - now we get ours.

Humanity will eventually prevail - just gonna take a while.

We're just stuck for a while - trying to still get out of the dark ages.

We'll make it some day.