International debt payments are reinforcing a devastating poverty in poorer countries. There is an unequal distribution of the world's wealth, hard work does not guarantee a just wage. Nor does an education guarantee employment. One year ago there were approximately 16 million refugees world-wide. Today there are 18 million refugees with two million persons made homeless by the wars in ex-Yugoslavia.
International organizations appear ineffective to save populations from dictators and enemies.
There continues to be widespread violation of human rights, degradation of women and in some parts of the world slavery is common practice. There is a serious crisis of leadership within the international community. The United Nations is neither prepared nor mandated to assume efficient leadership. Ancient divisions keep Europeans from exercising their potential international leadership role. The field is now open for the United States to exercise unprecedented hegemony.