A Failure Of Leadership

Robert Gates, the head of the Boy Scouts of America said this during his speech calling for the Boy Scouts to allow Homosexual male leaders:

"We must deal with the world as it is, not as we might wish it to be,” Gates said

It was the unwillingness to "deal with the world as it is" that got us things like The Golden Gate bridge

Every advance in science, medicine, architecture was made because someone decided to NOT deal with the world as it "is" and rather to make it as they want it to be.

Currently ISIS is having a field day in the Middle East because they do not accept the world "as it is". Not that I support ISIS, but at least they understand that the future belongs to those willing to shape it. What Gates is saying about his organization is that it is beholden to the whims and wishes of those largely outside it's organization rather than those who are in the organization.

The same can be said for the nation.