America’s political turmoil hampers its capacity to lead through yet another global crisis

CNN — A weekend of terror in Israel has sharpened already grave questions about the capacity of the politically fractured United States to lay out a unified and coherent response to a world spinning out of its control. When the House of Representatives descended into chaos last week, many Republicans, Democrats and independent experts warned that anarchy raging in US politics sent a dangerous message to the outside world. But no one could foresee just how quickly the paralysis in Washington would test the country's reaction to a major global crisis. The horrific Hamas attacks on Israeli civilians, which have…