Tuesday, February 22, 2011

How Arabs feel about the US: from one issue of the New York Times

As'ad Abu KLhalil
From David Kirkpatrick: "There were signs that the demonstrators had not forgotten their disappointment with what seemed to be American support for Mr. Mubarak until the end of the revolt. Though the demonstrators had returned to remove most of the graffiti around the square, one billboard remained inscribed with a message in English: “USA Admin — we will get democracy with our will. Play your games with the tyrant.”" Don't you like the word "disappointed" about Arab public feelings toward the US? Have you ever met an Arab who expressed her/his feelings toward the US with the word "disappointed"?
And then Neil MacFarquhar: "The widespread eruptions of antigovernment protests in the Middle East have focused on domestic issues and have not been tinged with anti-American sentiment. The Obama administration said it hoped that the veto, which it has as one of the Council’s five permanent members, would not change that public sentiment." Which of the two accounts is false? Both, of course. It is neither disappointed nor neutrality. It is rage at the US.

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