The populations of Jordan and Egypt – the two Arab countries that the US has been pouring money into for decades – don’t believe that Arabs had anything to do with 9/11. As a special kind of ironic bonus, they also think that Americans are greedy and selfish – even through the US is their money fount:
Muslims view people from the West, especially the United States and Europe, as selfish, immoral and greedy. People from the U.S. and Europe view Muslims as arrogant, violent and intolerant, the poll showed… One of the more surprising findings in the poll was that solid majorities in Indonesia (65 percent), Turkey (59 percent), Egypt (59 percent) and Jordan (53 percent) said they do not believe the 9/11 attacks on the United States were carried out by groups of Arabs.
Maybe if the West spent another few decades pouring money into the Middle East without demanding any kind of social reform, Arabs might like it more. There’s no evidence that this would actually happen (more, the opposite) but that shouldn’t dissuade our sophisticates from insisting that it will work.
