Someone on another site pointed out that this essay is actually an attack on American attitudes. I didn’t see it until I read Charlie’s excerpts above. Now I see it.

This definately has an alternate reading that is not complimentary: America thinks it knows what’s best for the world and anybody who disagrees should be eliminated. Anybody who is inconvenient to America should be eliminated. Anybody who stands in the way of America’s idea of progress should be eliminated.

Is this alternate reading right? I don’t know, but it’s there.