Whenever we speak of angst in the world, the one common theme seems to be lack of leadership, ie moral/ethical leadership, and gifted diplomacy. Within the scope of global diversity, there has to be some common ground, or standard regarding what is "moral" or ethical. The UN would certainly seem to lack such leadership right now. And it is interesting that "jihad" is declared when such positive leadership is absent.... It would seem that the world has alot of "thinking" to do if a meltdown is to be avoided. And maybe a meltdown is unavoidable, but I suspect Bush is leading us down a bad path...