Michael Scott Doran has an interesting piece in the Wall Street Journal questioning the assumption that the war on terror is stirring up trouble akin to what you would get if you took a baseball bat to a beehive. The Iraq Effect? Muslim anti-Americanism is mostly hot air.
A backlash is developing against unbridled anti-Americanism. Those who argue that the Iraq war has been a great boon to al Qaeda are selectively reading the talk coming out of the Arab world, and paying no attention to its actions. Anti-Americanism is a clever alibi, but hardly a unifying force across the great divides of a society.
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