America, of course, is always the good guy, as many Americans tell themselves every single day. The rest of us might want to question that assumption. From Bill Bonner at bonnerandpartners.com:
YOUGHAL, IRELAND – There being nothing serious to report from the financial front…
…we go back to our sideline job: irritating our dear readers.
Slimy and Hideous
Yes, “Bad Guy” Theory is on the table. We were set to heave it over the side, like a fish too small to meet the legal limit. But after reading our reader mail… followed by a restless night of prayer, meditation, and hard drinking… we decided to look further.
And from what we can see, it is slimy and hideous.
“Bad Guy” Theory (BGT) maintains that there are some people who are good, and others who are bad.
The good ones think they can spot the bad ones… and that they have the right and duty to kill them, because… well… they’re up to no good.
Many readers believe BGT is essentially right; they know damn well who the bad guys are… and think your editor is an SOB for suggesting otherwise.
Writes one, referring to Muslims, Iranians, or Palestinians (we’re not sure which):
If they could, they’d kill you, me, and our families.
We have some personal experience with Iranian people. We lived in Paris for many years and knew, casually, a family of Iranians.
We had dinner with them once or twice, in their apartment in the 16th arrondissement. Never once did they go for our throats with a butcher knife. Nor was the wine poisoned. (The conversation was deathly… but not, as it turned out, fatal.)
Another reader thinks our suggestion – that even good people sometimes do bad things – was out of line:
You owe all of your subscribers an apology.
This reader was particularly annoyed by our implication that dropping an atomic bomb on civilians was perhaps not such a good idea. (We’ll come back to that in a minute.)
To continue reading: The Day America Became The “Bad Guy”?
