America the Pest

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America the Pest
OpEdNews Op Eds 10/3/2013 at 16:13:18
By Mike Whitney

The United States is the world's biggest pest. It doesn't 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. That's why the US has so many enemies, because its the world's biggest budinski. The people in Washington just can't 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.

That's what this whole global war on terror-thing is all about. It's about sticking your big fat nose in other people's business 24-7. Some people just get a kick out of that. Why? Because they're obnoxious people, that's why. Like the drunk who shows up at your dinner party and slops red wine all over the rug. That's the US in a nutshell, a first-rate pain-in-the-ass.

Everyone knows this is true, even the flag wavers. They know we shouldn't be in Afghanistan or Iraq or Somalia or Yemen or wherever. We just got to be annoying, because that's 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. It's all baloney, and it misses the point. In fact, it dignifies US behavior as though it was all part of some grand plan. It's not. There is no plan. The plan is to hector people until they can't stand it anymore. That's not really a plan at all. It's just being a pest. It's 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.

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1. The United States is the world's biggest pest,but the rest of the world still can't live without it.

Yes, the United States is everywhere. But Americans are making too many mistakes too often nowadays.
We, and by "we" I mean most Latin American graduates of U.S. Universities, are continuously questioning American policies as never before. And clearly Americans too.

Gone are the times of great American victories in Europe and Asia. The United States has continuously fought odd wars in the middle east for over two decades. Wars with no clear objectives, demoralizing results, and protracted without end.

There is now a strong resistance to American meddling in foreign wars that never end, and whose results are no less than questionable.

The rising weight of China and to a lesser extent India in world affairs is making America less of a "superpower" and more of an intruder. The Snowden affair created a barrage of protest and caused cracks in U.S. foreign relations.

Now a new and dangerous issue has seriously blurred American credibility. as possible default by the U.S. Government is rapidly becoming a hard reality. And this could send many countries into real trouble.

Hence America's new and odd designation "as the world´s biggest pest".