Posted: 09.26.2001 Have their hamburgers and eat them, too
This quote came from a really good article ("Why do they [the Arab world] hate America?") linked in Susannah's blog:
"...How strange, I thought, even then. They wore Levi jeans, drank Coke, watched American television and listened to American music. Something inside them loved America, even as something outside them hated her. They were like fish that hated the very sea in which they swam - the whisky, in Samuel Beckett's words, that bore a grudge against the decanter. Like the Beirut elite, they wanted to have their hamburgers and eat them, to bite the Yankee hand that fed them..."
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