The deep strain of anti-Arab racism in the dominant culture facilitates the familiar gambit of attributing antagonism to the United States to the faults of others. The undercurrent is that the Arabs basically have no right to the oil that geological accident happened to place under their feet. It is only necessary to decode slightly. The vision of the West, of course, is much vaster than that of Morocco, covering the whole region and its resources, in fact, the resources of the entire world. It is worth recalling how little is new in any of this.
Great thoughts have a way of reappearing in every age.
38 Go to the next segment . 36 See references of note 21 . 37 Laqueur, NYT Magazine, Dec. 16, 1973.