Arab countries were busy hustling us 40 years ago by playing the US against the Soviet Block. Doesn't mean that they weren't at war with us, just wasn't a hot war. The Muslim Brotherhood has been at war with the West since Napoleon humiliated the Marmalukes in Egypt. Wahab and Saud made a partnership which enabled them to kick the Hashemites out of Arabia, dominate competing tribes and warlords - a successful partnership based on virulent xenophobia and anti-Westernism. Nasserism was an anti-Western, anti-Jewish, violent experssion of fascistic nationalism.
