Posted by
Nerdus Maximus on Monday, July 10, 2006 9:15:42 PM
A most entertaining article
compares nation states to high school kids.
The United States and Old Europe are the cool kids, with Eastern Europe
as the up and coming kids from the wrong side of the tracks. North Korea, Iran and other rogue states are
the social misfit kids who act out to get attention and sometimes end up going
postal.
The article is quite entertaining
and yet the analogy does work at many points.
What is left out is the identification of the smelly kid. Every class in every school has
a smelly kid. If you think yours didn't,
then you were probably the smelly kid.
Even the social misfits felt superior to the smelly kid, yet the smelly
kid isn't usually the one who goes postal.
What country or countries would you nominate to be the smelly kid?