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0385516118 rar Reforming the Middle East is not Americas fight, argues Lee Smith, nor is it a fight we can win. Soon after the World Trade Center towers fell, leaving ashes floating over journalist Lee Smiths Brooklyn neighborhood, he left for Cairo to find out why the Arabs hate us. He spent eight years reporting from Cairo, Beirut, and Jerusalem and discovered that the anger and disorder in the Middle East are not caused by a clash of civilizations between East and West, as is so often contended. Instead, he found a clash among Arab civilizations that led him to reassess Americas efforts to bring a freedom agenda to the Arab world. In The Strong Horse, Lee Smith offers paradigm-shifting insight into how the Arab world works and what Americas role should be in that world today. Read more