A reader calls my attention
A reader calls my attention to this fascinating account by David Brooks of the roots of Muslim and European anti-Americanism in this week's Weekly Standard.
The broad outline of Brooks' "fear of the Bourgeois" theory is sound, but he does tend to gloss over some of the nastier bits in American and Israeli history. We may indeed posess a certain vitality and heroism that the Arab nations lack and the Europeans have lost, but at some point we're going to have to come to real terms with what happend to the People Who Got In Our Way.
