The Wrong Side

In a world where most of the population is entertained instead of actively engaged, much of what we see is reduced to mere speculation of a sport. This is true of athletic events, but carries into fields like politics and foreign policy. The people decide they will never be a football player, baseball player, politician, or foreign ambassador, so these things fade into the realm of 'spectator sport'. We're just here to watch. Pick a side, root for someone.
We only care about these things if somehow circumstances dictate that we or someone close to us will be affected by what happens 'over there'. If we or a loved one join the military, suddenly it becomes a lot more important who we go to war with (etc).
Well, let's pretend for a minute we have no particular attachments to anything that would unduly influence our opinion. We just picked a side. Say, in foreign policy. US vs Iran. We know nothing of the history of the two nations in the last 50 years, we were just born in the last decade or two and immediately take the side of the US ... because we're from here! (just like a kid from St Louis will root for the Cardinals and a kid from Detroit will root for the Red Wings, etc).
The difference is, in sports there are no 'right' or 'wrong' answers. You could argue til you're blue in the face about what team is better than who, but in the end it's all just perspective.
In real life, I happen to believe there are moral absolutes. This means in a real conflict (not a sporting event) there really is a 'right' and there really is a 'wrong'. Trying to convince someone that they are on the wrong side in these situations is equivalent to trying to convince a sports fan that he is rooting for the wrong team.
In a heated argument, I managed to show parallels (and even worse things) that America is doing to other nations, while Iran isn't doing particularly anything. Still, (through our proxy Israel, and her proxies) we assassinated another Iranian scientist.
If THEY did that to us, we would DECIMATE THEIR COUNTRY, and be justified in doing it. A government is obligated to protect its citizens.
The response I get about why this is OK for us but not OK for them is literally this: "Because we're the good guys!"

If the good guys are doing the same thing as the bad guys, what makes them the good guys? 'Good' is not a geographic location, or a state of mind. If in your battle against evil you turn to evil, even if you win you have now become evil, and replaced the lesser evil with the greater evil, you, who was able to overcome it.
What makes (or made) us the good guys is that here in the US we are (or were) a bastion of righteousness. I don't suppose that everyone everywhere was always righteous. But we were grounded in the Bible. We treated enemy combatants better than they deserved. We didn't torture prisoners like the Nazi's did. We didn't perform gross experiments on our political foes in the name of 'science'. And we didn't sponsor terrorists to commit acts of terrorism.

Now all of that has changed. God has been pushed out of our schools, out of our military, out of our courthouses, and out of our government. The Bible is nowhere to be found. We treat our enemies like animals. We torture prisoners as a matter of policy. We hired (from germany) their wacko scientists to come work for us post-WWII. And we do sponsor terrorists to commit acts of terrorism.

All these things that we do are evil.

So no, we are not the 'good guys' and the world has every right to hate us right now. We are not the good guys according to God's standard, according to human judgment, or on a scale of 'who is less bad'. We are a wicked and degenerate nation who is probably soon to collapse. The only way we can say 'we are the good guys' is through sheer geographical "root for your sports team" idiocy that has no place in logic or common sense.

We are bad, and we need to repent or God will judge us harshly. And that is a fact.