"Although most Americans don't know it..."

"Although most Americans don't know it, for much of the early twentieth century our country had an excellent reputation in the Middle East, the part of the world we are now told will hate us no matter what we do.  Right now, after decades of meddling, our government is hated in the Middle East and around the world to a degree I have never seen before in my lifetime.  That does not make us safer."  -Page 21 of The Revolution, A Manifesto