‘Why Do They Hate Us?’

Mohsin Hamid, a writer who was born in Pakistan, but grew up in the U.S., writes that “there is another major reason [besides envy] for anti-Americanism: the accreted residue of many years of U.S. foreign policies.” He describes how Reagan’s policies transformed Pakistan from a “relatively liberal country” to a conservative Islamic state with a growing heroin problem. He argues that Americans must abandon their naivety, and “educate themselves… about what their country has done abroad.”

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