I did a blog looking at the question: Why do bad things happen?  

(http://toeverybodytherecomesaseason.blogspot.com/) ...and other versions also included, why bad things happen to good people.

At this point, let's look at why bad people happen to good things.

Most of us consider our nation as a good thing.

So, why did bad people happen to a good nation?  Now, I'm not talking about random 'badness' ...as in random violence.  I'm talking about things most of us would agree upon.  I do not hesitate to say that 'bad' people happened to Germany ...by the name of Hitler, or to Russia by the name of Stalin.

But, usually they are not termed 'bad' until it is too late to prevent the bad.