USA world's biggest problem?

For some in France the USA is world's biggest problem.

Somebody posted this article as an 'amusing reading'. 
Below is my answer: 


Why amusing?
It's a very widely spread feeling, based on facts and too often comforted by US behaviour.
Some years ago I had the same discussion with somebody claiming -as the author of this article- that people should rather worry about Iran (that didn't make war to anyone since the '80s), North Korea (that didn't make war at all).

At the time, a poll around Europe commissioned by the European Commission, showed that most Europeans (not only 'the French far left') considered USA and Israel as the world's worst warmongers (then fashionable to say 'rogue states').

Not astonishing: Israel was bombing (including with white phosphorus bombs) refugee camps or civilian cities and settlements in Palestine and Lebanon to retaliate against minor attacks from terrorist groups, while expanding settlements in Palestinian territories and denying any concession.

Only in the latest years, the USA had been bombing to rubble -mostly against or without the UN Security Council decisions- Panama, Serbia, Sudan, Afghanistan, Iraq...(but run away like hell from the only place where everybody agreed they had a peace keeping role: Somalia, where they fucked up big time for not wanting to be under UN command); and they disregarded basic principle of international legality, with their 'special renditions' (=kidnapping without a judge warrant) and torture of anybody suspected of anything based on nothing, with attacks on civilians, with torture camps, both military and of the intelligence...

Still nowadays the Obama administration is retiring from countries where the USA created new problems (e.g. The islamic militants active nowadays in Iraq had no space whatsoever under Saddam Hussein, without wanting to defend him) or didn't solve the old ones; is threatening to start a new campaign against Iran, didn't solve the credibility trap of Guantanamo, is issuing a real war (including the infamous 'secret arrest warrant') against Wikileaks and its leader Julian Assange, whose only crime is making government and institutions liable to public scrutiny (shouldn't it be compulsory to call a country 'democratic'?) ...

So now, tell me again: why do you find amusing that some in France or elsewhere think that the USA today is the world's biggest problem?
Shouldn't you rather consider it a ringing bell?


Once I read of an Indian proverb:
If one person tells you are a horse, laugh at him. 
If a second person tells you are a horse, start wondering... 
If a third one tells you are a horse you better go look for a saddle.