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When did Edward Said first critique US foreign policy?
In the 1997 edition of Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World, Said criticized the Orientalist bias of Western news.
Was Edward Said's Covering Islam an article?
Covering Islam is a 1981 book by Palestinian author Edward Said, in which he discusses how the Western media distorts the image of Islam.
What other criticism did Edward Said make of American foreign policy other than Oriental bias of Western news?
Edward Said criticized the American military involvement in the Kosovo War as an imperial action.
Did Edward Said give an example of his US foreign policy bias?
Edward Said described the Iraq Liberation Act, promulgated during the Clinton Administration, as the political license that predisposed the U.S. to invade Iraq in 2003.
Were there other examples Edward Said gave of US foreign policy bias besides the Iraq Liberation Act?
Edward Said exemplified the continual support of Israel by successive U.S. presidential governments, as actions meant to perpetuate regional political instability in the Middle East.

Question: Was there backlash from people who disagreed with him?
Self-contained rewrite: Was there backlash from people who disagreed with Edward Said?