US' disruptive actions render it a 'rogue nation'

A nation is good or bad not for the reputation it enjoys but for the actions it takes

US officials and politicians who have for years excelled in calling other countries "rogue nations" should know the term is being increasingly applied to their own country now.

Robert Kagan, a neoconservative historian at the Brookings Institution, wrote in the May 14 edition of The Washington Post that most people assume US foreign policy would follow one of two courses: being a primary defender of the international order since the end of World War II, or pull back from overseas commitment, shedding global responsibilities and turning inward.