Some things our former foreign friends are doing because of us.

Or how to lose friends and influence people to hate you part three.

The US Ambassador to France was summoned to the Foreign Ministry to answer questions about the program to sweep up 70 million phone calls in France. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57608391/france-summons-u.s-ambassador-after-report-says-nsa-swept-up-70.3m-french-phone-records-in-a-month/

So France joins Mexico, Britain, Germany, Brazil, Bolivia, and Goddess knows how many other nations in condemning our actions regarding our belief that we have a right to read everyone's mail, and a responsibility to listen to everyone's phone calls. Our asinine argument of the Bush Era sounds even more lame now. Do you want the Terrorists to win?

But wait, there is more. The Police have an automatic response. The suspect appeared to have a weapon, and I was in fear of my life, so I fired and shot the suspect. We have seen videos time and time again where these words were spoken, but the video did not match the claimed behavior of the suspect. One just last week had a mentally handicapped boy shot down while standing straight up in the middle of the street.

Our national claim is getting just as weak. We think we see a weapon in the hands of someone who is talking to someone else. We fire a missile from our drone, and we declare a terrorist dead. We saw a weapon, and we had good reason to believe they were terrorists, who would one day attack us, so we bombed the crap out of them. http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023882239

The UN is now ready to sanction us if it worked the way it should instead of having veto powers vested in the big five.

That's all right though, because now American Companies have a real problem in the EU. http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/10/21/european_parliament_moves_ahead_with_data_privacy_overhaul_after_snowden.html

Under the new laws proposed, and almost certainly adopted. All companies doing business in the EU must follow EU guidelines and laws concerning privacy of data. The fines could be up to five percent of their revenue, not profits mind you, revenue. That would bankrupt any American company in the EU if those rules are adopted.

So the EU is putting special regulations in place to force American Companies to stop providing the NSA and CIA with data, and that will almost certainly hurt those companies, either through loss of business in the EU, or huge fines as the NSL's and Double secret warrants demand that the companies comply or be punished for supporting terrorism.

Ill conceived actions coupled with the arrogance that would put a blue blooded celebutant to shame, that is our foreign policy today.