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Middle East Review of International Affairs
The Truth About U.S. Middle East Policy
by Barry Rubin
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Editor's Note
In the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks on America, there was much discussion about whether U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. This policy was widely attacked throughout the region on many grounds. In the United States, too, there were those who attributed the attack to deficiencies in U.S. policy. This article suggests that the record of the United States in the Middle East has been badly distorted in the verbal attacks that followed the terror attacks. In addition, it argues that anti-Americanism is serving a political function in the Arab world and Iran that is largely independent of actual U.S. behavior and policies.
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Endnotes
Note *: Bary Rubin is editor of the Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA) Journal and director of the Global Research in International Affairs Center, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC). The author of man books on the Middle East, U.S. foreign policy and international affairs, he is currently completing, Reluctant Pragmatism: The Trategy of the Middle East, to be published by Cambridge University Press, and also a biography of Yasir Arafat.Back