I refer Rentakini's Stick this in your pipe and smoke it by Keith Bettinger.

I don't know who or what 'esoterrorism' and 'penny-a-liner screed' are or who the 'elbow-patch set' are, but when Bettinger mentioned the phrase 'how evil the US is' bells rang for me. Yes! Yes! The US is evil! But reading on, I realised Bettinger was just calling people and things names.

He takes umbrage at someone praising Cuba for its small income disparities, probably unlike the US, and alludes to Cuba's 'long list of human rights violations' while failing to mention a single one. His response to a newspaper's unfavourable comparison of the 'only superpower' with Cuba is more bombast: 'hagiographic paeans to the wobbly and bearded plenipotentiary of the denuded island', whatever that means.

More name-calling against any who dare criticise America: ' demagoguery, ignorant ... reactionaries, embracing a sort of retarded yin-yang dichotomous worldview'.

The Fulbright scholar then pontificates about local writers 'simplifying the issues in an attempt to understand without really exploring, to comprehend without really knowing', but does not share the nuggets of knowledge his explorations have rewarded him with. Only dark hints about the 'overwhelming evidence' he has.

Obviously, Bettinger does not like 'the Osama T-shirt crowd' or any type of crowd for that matter because they tend to be poor, sweaty and smelly. He fears that Osama would introduce 'an egalitarianism of misery'. I suspect America has taught this youth nether misery nor egalitarianism, and I do not mean from books.

Then Bettinger really runs amok. He cannot stand anyone praising the 'oppressive theocracy in which all expression and creativity is ruthlessly squelched' (his translation for the former Taliban regime in Afghanistan).

His insinuation about the woman having escaped a visit to a gynaecologist is below the belt, but then, one must deal with hysteria if one is to understand the American psyche I suppose. For notwithstanding all this frothing at the mouth, the US is still evil.

Bettinger is shocked that 'it is taken as a given that United States' foreign policy is singularly beholden to Israel'. He is wrong. What is taken as given by the rest of the world outside the Batman-and-Robin circus is that Israel directs US foreign policy.

Bettinger should reveal who he is and explain to Malaysians what and who are meant by 'Semites' as well as how he came upon the 'alliance of psychopaths, anarchists, anti-Semites, and scholars longing for who knows what'.