As a nation our leadership has the tendency to want to play the role of cartoonist Hank Ketcham's Margaret to the world's default enactment of Dennis Mitchell. We insist on when the tea party will take place, who attends, when and how the cups and saucers are arranged and God help Dennis if he doesn't want to sheepishly comply with every set condition, rule of etiquette or social agenda for the afternoon event because in a snit, Margaret will in whatever way possible lay the biggest guilt trip on Dennis and absolve herself of anything contrary to just trying to bring the best out of everyone for the sake of everyone involved no matter how intrusive and over bearing her "requests", demands or behaviors may be.
Yes, America has control issues which in and of itself isn't lethal. But when a solution may be needed for a dramatic peaceful, international coalition to help stave off a potential global threat from the environment, and America's leadership believes that not addressing the issue due to differences in stewardship is the only realistic and available option, or an existing, reasonable option at all... it could eventually turn out to be.
For everyone.
Bearing in mind that the world's collective body of failing solution seekers will be the last people on the planet negatively affected by those possibly disastrous results.
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