That’s the state that America has been reduced to, particularly since the global economic crisis began. Though the trouble has spread through nations like a virulent contagion, everyone knows exactly where it started.
Global anti-Americanism is feeding on the fact that the U.S. is buried in debt, and that the free-market orthodoxy it has embodied is a proven failure. The worse the global economic contamination grows, the more that foreign nations are taking the opportunity to condemn America for its flaws and demand that it submit to their will.
