India, March 2 -- Should we allow scatterbrained national and international leaders to turn this world into a madhouse? The other day, a friend of mine aptly remarked, "The February 20th World Day for Social Justice should be named the World Day of Narcissists." He seemed to have a point. Nations are more and more run by people who grab power and demonstrate a narcissistic tendency to play the megalomaniac.

The 'mad house' reference here is meant to show that some powerful nations are amassing nuclear arsenals in their backyards. They push them into the weapons market and force other countries to buy them after creating warlike situations. They flex their military muscle to scare other countries. They use them in a cowboy fashion to prev...