Why don't they like us? How America has become the object of much of the planet's genuine grievances--and displaced discontents. (The Whole World Is Watching).

IT WASN'T ITS INNOCENCE THAT THE UNITED STATES lost on September 11, 2001. It was its naivete. Americans have tended to believe that in the eyes of others the United States has lived up to the boastful cliches propagated during the Cold War (especially under Ronald Reagan) and during the Clinton administration.

We were seen, we thought, as the champions of freedom against fascism and communism, as the advocates of decolonization, economic development, and social progress, as the technical innovators whose mastery of technology, science, and advanced education was going to unify the ...

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