Tuesday, December 01, 2009

Fouad Ajami: The Arabs Have Stopped Applauding Obama - WSJ.com

Fouad Ajami: The Arabs Have Stopped Applauding Obama - WSJ.com: "The crowd may have applauded the cavalier way the new steward of American power referred to his predecessor, but in the privacy of their own language they doubtless wondered about his character and his fidelity. 'My brother and I against my cousin, my cousin and I against the stranger,' goes one of the Arab world's most honored maxims. The stranger who came into their midst and spoke badly of his own was destined to become an object of suspicion."