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Lebanese journalist Sa'ad Mehio draws from a lifetime of reporting on the region to consider what went wrong, analyzing the ways America and the West contributed to the demise of the kinds of nationalist movements that carried forth the project of modernity. He describes the wholesale corruption of the regime of oil, and the many uses of political Islam as tools - by the West (as a weapon against Communism), by the Arab world, and by despots. Mehio's history-rich perspective produces a startling new view of the place of the Palestinian conflict, as well as Al Qaeda and the appeal of Osama Bin Laden, correcting Western amnesia about its responsibility for Middle East turmoil. A rare view from an Arab liberal, for all those interested in Middle East politics and history.