What is the number 1 quality you expect for the “leader of the free world”? So to speak.?

Question

When I say “leader of the free world” I mean any person taking on office in the interests of the public.
It seems that a lot of folks that run for office seem to put themselves up on a higher pedestal than others. Projecting this aura of false confidence that leads us to believe they know what they are doing. Often times we see humans after years of service admit they had made a mistake, I won’t nit pick it. Usually the mistakes are blamed on some type of faulty information. Which brings me to my next question, why is it that they are having a hard time discerning credible information from political band standing?

I don’t know about you, but what I think we need from our leadership is humans with the uncanny ability to sense when someone is pissing down thier back, and knows right away that it isn’t raining. Do you know what I mean?

The problem being that a lot of decisions are being based off of opinion rather than fact. There never seems to be an equal representation of all sides or options, we are just being flung into war after war; And our leaders don’t know how to ask the right questions to determine whether or not this was the correct course of action? IT is such a simple part of the job, to process information and ASK THE RIGHT QUESTIONS. Sometimes the questions that need to be asked are the ones contrary to what is currently spewing from the media. For instance, we have seen a lot on the Taliban, but how many news specials did you see on our covert backing of them against the Soviets and then leaving roving armies to become hungry gypsies, we basically said “thank you for killing yourselves, eat some rocks.” You know who Saddam was, but how many recaps have we seen of our backing of his regime when we were at odds with Iran?

The past is the past, there is nothing we can do about it. What we can do is do something about the future. By continuing this war we are increasing the number of possible “terrorists” exponentially with every one we kill. Just like here, imagine if someone was occupying here, and a distant relative you didn’t know got killed by them. I am guessing a lot of us would be angry regardless of the circumstance. The same applies to these other humans, and that is all they have to talk about, so everyone in the family knows, and without the influence of information and a free flow of communication between our two societies we will continue to build an insurmountable negativity that will ultimately lead to negative consequences for all sides.

“Terrorism” is like any other hatred. What do we know about hatred? That it can be overcome with education. Right now we are sitting on a conflict that started in ancient Greece (Democracy vs. Islam), the regional conflict dates back over 10,000 years by recorded history. Right now we are at a point where we could really turn this around. WE NOW HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY to see what it is like for them and for them to see what it is like for us, We can lead from example, from a distance. The current generation may be difficult to change, but if we can survive long enough we can make it a little better for the next generation, and in turn they for the next. What we need is to somehow open the communication and exchange of ideas and humanitarian services, We have to pick positive things to help with if we are going to change the opinions of the world. No matter how you cut it, when you have to result to military force that is always going to be negative.

You build a hospital in the region and a school of medicine, that is positive. Who cares what kind of regime it goes to, as long as we are helping humans in a way that they need it. No one needs a bullet thrown at them. .IT is so much more expensive to go to war than it is to help humans in a humanitarian fashion. We do need to maintain a strong military, but we can do so and not go to war. We could hold military Olympics, that is why they started, why don’t we do that? We could have war games between countries and the rewards could be the lifting of sanctions or increases in trade incentives, or they could win a hospital or school. We should start figuring out how to defend ourselves in space, as we are someday going to have to leave the planet, that is an inevitability, who know when, but someday. Why don’t we give the world a break for a decade, tell the world we are going to be neutral.

The ENTIRE world has got the point, don’t mess with the US cause we’ll turn your *** to grass. We don’t have to prove that point anymore. Advocates for war say that “if we bring the troops home the war will follow us here.” That may be so, there are some loons out there, But if we are going to risk the lives of Americans on war, could we just for once give peace a chance? The risk is that someone is stupid enough to attack. IT could happen. Then again there might be peace. If we keep going the way we are going we are going to unite those folks against us. What we need to do is leave them folks to their own devices, and support the emerging governments from a distance with humanitarian efforts, economic development, technology development, anything that would help their humans educate themselves and become more comfortable in the world.

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Answer 1

I think the most important characteristic for a leader is that they are able to make decision on their own. They should be willing to listen to others advice, but they should not let what other people think determine what they do.