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18. This is from an interview with Fouad Ajami, professor of Middle East Studies at Johns Hopkins University, by Neal Conan on NPR’s Talk of the Nation, broadcast November 13, 2001.
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19. Remnick, “In a Dark Time,” p. 51, and Abraham Rabinovich, “Hezbollah fires on Israeli border,” Washington Times, February 7, 2002.
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20. Thomas L. Friedman, “Today’s News Quiz,” New York Times, November 20, 2001, p. A19.
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21. Fareed Zakaria, “How to Save the Arab World,” Newsweek, December 24, 2001, p. 22.
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22. Ibid.
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Chapter 11
1. Neal Ascherson, “11 September,” London Review of Books, October 4, 2001 (italics added).
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2. Thomas L. Friedman, The Lexus and the Olive Tree (New York: Anchor Books, 2000), pp. xix, 13, 381–82.
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3. Mortimer B. Zuckerman, “Still the American century,” U.S. News & World Report, February 10, 1997, p. 72.
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4. These figures are from the CIA’s official website. See http//www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/us.html.
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5. Thomas Frank, One Market under God: Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic Democracy (New York: Doubleday, 2000), p. 12; Edward Luttwak, Turbo-Capitalism: Winners and Losers in the Global Economy (New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1999), pp. 1, 2, 22; and Paul Krugman, “America the Polarized,” New York Times, January 4, 2002, p. A21. On poverty in the United States, see Almanac of Policy Issues, available at http://www.policyalmanac.org/social_welfare/poverty.shtml.
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6. Jonathan Freedland, “The Right Turns against America,” Spectator, April 21, 2001, pp. 22–24.
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7. See Friedman, The Lexus and the Olive Tree, p. 437, and Joseph Kahn, “Globalization Proves Disappointing,” New York Times, March 21, 2002, p. A8.
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8. See Thomas Omestad, Bay Fang, Eduardo Cue, and Masha Gessen, “A world of resentment,” U.S. News & World Report, March 5, 2001, p. 32.
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9. Ibid., p. 32.
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10. See James Kitfield, “A Tale of Two Allies,” National Journal, February 10, 2001, p. 398.
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11. See Donald L. Horowitz, Ethnic Groups in Conflict (Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1985), pp. 175–78.
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12. On the 1974 U.N. resolution, see Alan C. Swan and John F. Murphy, Cases and Materials on the Regulation of International Business and Economic Relations (2d ed.) (New York: Matthew Bender & Company, 1999), pp. 1057–58. On the May 2001 ouster of the United States from the U.N. Commission on Human Rights, see Dalia Acosta, “Rights: Cuba Applauds U.S. Removal from U.N. Rights Commission,” Inter Press Service, May 4, 2001.
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13. Claire Cozens, “U.S. brands suffer as anti-American feeling runs high,” Guardian (London), December 21, 2001.
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14. Mary Beard, “11 September,” London Review of Books, October 4, 2001.
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15. See David Ellwood, “French Anti-Americanism and McDonald’s,” History Today, February 1, 2001, p. 34–35.
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16. As reported in Ibid., p. 34.
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17. On Vedrine, see Philip H. Gordon, “The French position,” National Interest, fall 2000. Mitterand’s and Lang’s statements, and the quote from Le Monde, are reported in Ellwood, “French Anti-Americanism and McDonald’s,” pp. 34–36.
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18. David Pryce-Jones, “Toujours l’antiaméricanisme: The religion of the French elite,” National Review, June 11, 2001, p. 45.
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19. Ellwood, “French Anti-Americanism and McDonald’s,” pp. 34, 36; Gordon, “The French position”; and Pryce-Jones, “Toujours l’antiaméricanisme,” p. 45.
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20. Kitfield, “A Tale of Two Allies.” See also Elizabeth Pond, “Europe’s ‘anti-Americanism’ may reflect worry over Soviet military power,” Christian Science Monitor, July 15, 1981, p. 3.
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21. As reported in Gordon, “The French position.” See also Freedland, “The Right Turns against America,