The damage to the U.S. arising from espionage to European states

The size you are taking the scandal arising from the alleged interception by the United States on communications in Europe , which covered , presumably, listening to heads of state, puts Washington in a less awkward position as the international arena . After the request for a regulation of the use of drones, raised by Amnesty International and impressed with the Pakistani government , the case of wiretapping raises several questions about the legitimacy of the conduct of the U.S. in the international arena . With regard to listening to illegal communications in Europe, the USA, if this accusation was true, as stated by several intelligence agencies, would have operated against allied countries , leading a very serious action that also disrupt established relationships . The convening of U.S. ambassadors from more than one European country to get official explanations , already constitutes a first step towards a diplomatic crisis , which will certainly be denied, but that, at least , will oblige American diplomats to occur in verbal acrobatics to be able to provide explanations embarrassing . Apart from the economic crisis that is gripping the world, do not seem to have any cause for concern so intense to act in this way , especially against countries allied surely , for if the need to combat outposts of Islamic terrorism can justify, some ways, the use of drones , although it must always be borne in mind that such action is outside international law, it is not clear what reasons are there to spy on European heads of state . This move can be revealing of how the U.S. is crossed by a palpable uneasiness , almost a syndrome of encirclement , which leads them to do , even in a clumsy way , and reckless acts can not be justified . Europe , after a loss to understand , is coming together to try to create a regulation to protect the data already provided but postponed for some time , but what is maturing within European countries is the acknowledgment of the need to a liberation from the United States , a kind of declaration of independence of U.S. influence . If this feeling were to take shape and be implemented by acts of practical value , for the United States would be a kind of isolation, suffered for not having assessed the consequences of misconduct . On the other hand, Europe needs to give an official response and cohesive in Washington, if only to sanction a violation suffered and not to lose its credibility in front of the international scene. The fact that the European summit this evening relates to its use of wiretaps by the United States , provides the importance that is attached to the issue . Probably the answer against the United States will not be soft and the fact that the same Chancellor Merkel, then the leader of Europe's most important , it would be among the personalities intercepted, does not allow a positive forecast for the USA. For Obama it is a bad sign , not only for the reactions of the allies , but also for the amateurish ways in which they are dealt with such sensitive issues . Already the leak with the case Snowden , denouncing a certain approximation , which was followed by the kidnapping of the plane of the Bolivian president , in a crescendo of improper behavior on the international level that are not followed actions to recover the credibility affected . The United States is indifferent to the judgment of the diplomatic landscape , but also open to the repeated violations of international law , as if they were a superior entity which is not subject to these laws . The American tactics , rather than apologize and bring the justifications is to deny the obvious , being so open to criticism of opponents, but now also have allies . It is not clear that the opportunity to conduct and even the possible gain in any term . In this context, Obama is a bitter disappointment , maintaining a behavior completely analogous to the worst stages of the cold war in the face of these actions, the much- heralded intentions to give the United States a new role and a picture that is more respectful of other countries, to ' inside the international scene , they become an attitude of mere hypocrisy which will be difficult to repair the image plane .