Bush vetoes Middle East talks. Wolfowitz is not only entirely amoral he hasn't a clue how damaging this policy is to the success of everything he believes in, let alone to the interests of The American People he is sworn to represent. Corporations dictate domestic policy, and foreign policy is run by the followers of Arik Sharon.

Ratlosigkeit.
A peculiarly Germanic concept describing a sort of passive helplessness of the witness to a crime, defined by the question: 'what could I do?'