An excerpt from Glenn Greenwald's article,
"The US and Israel: a short quiz on 'rogue nation' status":
So essentially, it's the entire planet on one side, versus the US,
its new right-wing poodle to the north, Israel, and three tiny, bribed
islands on the other side.
If you're a member in good standing of
the Washington-based US foreign policy community, then the way you
describe these matters is as follows: "the international community
stands by Israel and supports its position" - because, in that warped,
self-affirming world, "international community" is a synonym for "US
dictates".
But for those fortunate enough to reside outside of
that realm of intense imperial propaganda: who is actually opposed to
the consensus of the international community here? In other words, who
are the real "rogue nations"?
An excerpt from
"End of the Rogue," (Source: Newsweek. Date: January 28, 2010):
What Washington has failed to fully recognize is that the world that created "rogue states" is gone. The term became popular in the 1980s, mainly in the United States, to describe minor dictatorships threatening to the Cold War order. Then, after the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the main challenge to American dominance came from those states unwilling to accommodate themselves to the "end of history" and conform to U.S. values. The idea of "the rogue state" assumed the existence of an international community, united behind supposedly universal Western values and interests, that could agree on who the renegades are and how to deal with them. By the late 1990s this community was already dissolving, with the rise of China, the revival of Russia, and the emergence of India, Brazil, and Turkey as real powers, all with their own interests and values. Today it's clear that the "international community" defined by Western values is a fiction, and that for many states the term "rogue" might just as well apply to the United States as to the renegades it seeks to isolate.
