Nations fail because their leaders are greedy, selfish and ignorant of history This is the kind of thinking that got the US stuck in Iraq for a decade. "We'll

Nations fail because their leaders are greedy, selfish and ignorant of history This is the kind of thinking that got the US stuck in Iraq for a decade. "We'll change the country by killing this one guy". If a nation's leader is a failure it's because the nation itself is a big pile of fail, not the other way around.