It's also natural in that part of the world to blame what people view as the... as the most important authority in the region, and that currently is the United States of America.
“It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.”
“History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own?”