Western Democracy Is on Trial, More than Any Time Since WWII
... Empire after WWI. At home, his administration (and other officials) failed miserably in addressing Hurricane Katrina as is humbled New Orleans, a great American city, and did nothing to prevent the onset of the greatest global financial and economic crisis since the Great Depression (barely managing to address it in time to prevent a possible total meltdown of the global financial and economic systems). Now, America’s first non-white president, Barack Obama, has encountered a level of obstructionism ...