The Falseness of Anti-Americanism by Faoud Ajami

Foreign Policy ^ | September 15,2003 | Faoud Ajami

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"The frenzy with which radical Islamists battle against deportation orders from U.S. soil? dreading the prospect of returning to Amman and Beirut and Cairo? reveals the lie of anti-Americanism that blows through Muslim lands."

Exactly

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"To maintain France's sympathy, and that of Le Monde, the United States would have had to turn the other cheek to the murderers of al Qaeda, spare the Taliban, and engage the Muslim world in some high civilizational dialogue. But who needs high approval ratings in Marseille?"

Who indeed?!!

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"There is energy in the United States, and there is force. And there is resistance and resentment and emulation in older places affixed on the delicate balancing act of a younger United States not yet content to make its peace with traditional pains and limitations and tyrannies."

Faoud Ajami,..........I'm speechless.

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(very long; great)

[kk22tt]

Very powerful piece.

[JasonC]

They are obviously mis-transcribed commas...

[Hoplite]

An interesting read.

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(Long;Great!)

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[Renfield]

I suspected as much, but couldn't resist asking the question.