The entire world hates us.

Americans are loud. Loud and obnoxious. We think it’s OK to do whatever we want, whenever we want. We don’t think about the people around us.

The countries of the United Nations recently got together to embarrass us, kicking us off the International Narcotics Control Board and Human Rights Commission.

Our expulsion from the Narcotics Control Board is easy enough to understand - our drug policy is nuts, and for 60 years we’ve been trying to push it on every culture boasting a resident who speaks English.

If you’re having a hard time figuring out why we were expelled from the Human Rights Commission while countries like China and Sudan still have seats, please allow me to take you through a little review.

Remember when we bombed downtown Belgrade, Yugoslavia, blowing up unsuspecting janitors as they cleaned federal buildings at night? How about when we “accidentally” blew up the Chinese embassy? Remember hitting a Yugoslavian school bus with a long-range missile?

Ever since we won the Cold War, we’ve been prancing around the globe, thinking now that our opposition, the evil empire, is gone, it’s perfectly acceptable for us to back up any moral judgment we make with troop deployments.

We used to be the lesser of two evils. No one in his or her right mind wanted to deal with the Soviet Union, so most of the United Nations jumped on board with us.

But they’re not going to play anymore. That’s why lately, instead of the United Nations, we’ve been using NATO to carry out our foreign will.

Now, I’ve been to a NATO airbase. Maybe there was some British guy running around serving tea who I never saw, but this NATO airbase bore a strange resemblance to a U.S. airbase that happened to be on Italian soil.

The only reason the rest of the world has put up with our bullying for so long is because we’re so much stronger than everyone else. We are the biggest kid in the school yard. We walk around the playground with our dumb henchmen, beating up little kids and taking their lunch money.

OK, so maybe that’s a little extreme. But when was the last time our country did anything but exactly what it wanted?

There were two major points of disagreement during our president’s tour through Europe last week.

The first was the Kyoto Treaty, where in 1997 we agreed to reduce our carbon dioxide emissions to 7 percent below their 1990 levels. Now let’s be absolutely clear on this. We never, ever had any intention (ever) of honoring that treaty. We already produce more than one-fifth the world’s carbon dioxide.

And although the Native Americans we annihilated used to consider how decisions would affect their children, their children’s children, and children 10 generations from their children, our politicians are just concerned with getting elected next term and getting the corporate money they need to do it.

Reducing our consumption of fossil fuels would mean scaling back the growth of industry. By our president’s own admission, we are quite unprepared to do that in the face of economic trouble.

The other thing the entire world is united against us on is our proposed Missile Defense System.

There’s a parity that exists in global politics today, and the best way to illustrate it is with nuclear weapons. In the event we launch our nuclear weapons at, say, China, China would then launch all of its nuclear weapons at us while ours are en route. And then we would all be dead.

And that’s fantastic, because that knowledge is probably what got us all through the Cold War alive. What the new administration’s Missile Defense System would do is remove that parity from global politics, making the decision to launch nuclear weapons less risky. And that’s the logic behind the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, which our administration now calls a relic.

And it can’t even get the proposed thing to work. Targeting a traveling Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile is like trying to shoot an individual piece of confetti with a slingshot - odds are you’ll hit one of the fragments around it. The highest current success rates are somewhere around 1 percent.

And this piece of junk is what we’re raising hell over in the international community.

The Europeans are our closest allies, and even they are starting to question our total disregard for the people around us.

The nations of the world are trying to tell us something and I think it’s time we started listening.

After all, they’re not going to let us push them around forever.

Andrew Banyai, a political science and pre-law senior, can be reached at banyaian@msu.edu.