America the Pest
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America the Pest
by Mike Whitney | October 3, 2013 - 10:58am
The United States is the worlds biggest pest. It doesnt matter where you live or what you do, the US will find some excuse to poke its nose in your business and make your life miserable. Thats why the US has so many enemies, because its the worlds biggest budinski. The people in Washington just cant stand the idea that someone, somewhere might be having a normal, happy life without getting bombed to death in drone attack or shunted off to some black site where the CIA can rip out their fingernails or beat them black and blue. Thats what this whole global war on terror-thing is all about. Its about sticking your big fat nose in other peoples business 24-7. Some people just get a kick out of that. Why? Because theyre obnoxious people, thats why. Like the drunk who shows up at your dinner party and slops red wine all over the rug. Thats the US in a nutshell, a first-rate pain-in-the-ass.
Everyone knows this is true, even the flag wavers. They know we shouldnt be in Afghanistan or Iraq or Somalia or Yemen or wherever. We just go to be annoying, because thats who we are, The Irritating States of America.
I get tired of leftist writers droning on and on about the Empire-this and the Superpower-that. Its all baloney, and it misses the point. In fact, it dignifies US behavior as though it was all part of some grand plan. Its not. There is no plan. The plan is to hector people until they cant stand it anymore. Thats not really a plan at all. Its just being a pest. Its like the brat who keeps kicking the back of your seat when your flying across country or the wasp that shows up at the company picnic. Are you going to tell me the wasp has a plan? No. The wasp has no plan and neither does the US. The US is just doing what it does best; making a first class nuisance of itself.
So now the government is going to shutdown, right? And all the liberal pundits are wringing their hands moaning that the worlds going to come to an end because this lumbering, annoying giant is going on holiday. Is that it?