The spectacle of some of the most powerful leaders in the world gathering at Camp David on Friday for the G-8 summit, and then for this weekend’s NATO anniversary in Chicago, won’t disguise the fact that things seem to be gradually falling apart. These once-mighty symbols of international leadership appear almost paralyzed before the tides of economic, financial and political change. The opening of William Butler Yeats’ 1921 poem that found the best devoid of conviction and the worst filled with passionate intensity reads as if crafted as an elegant introduction to an analysis of the global political moment.
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