Of course, these neocons had neither the capacity nor the honesty to tell the president about the deep resentment among Arabs about the US’s approach to the Israel–Palestine issue. Instead, they pandered to Ariel Sharon’s self-serving and unscrupulous diagnosis of the issues that had led to the 9/11 attacks – a combination of Israel’s violence, the US’s major role in creating the Muslim holy warriors, and the country’s long backing of the region’s autocratic rulers, who survived on the security umbrella and weaponry provided by the Americans. Indeed, among the Gulf sheikhdoms, much of the
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