Fouad Ajami:

"It's very difficult to understand the machinery of hatred, because you wind up resorting to logic, but trying to understand this with logic is like measuring distance in kilograms ... "

Fouad Ajami is the Majid Khadduri professor at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies and a contributing editor at U.S. News & World Report.

Read his article, "The Falseness of Anti-Americanism," at Foreign Policy: The Magazine of Global Politics, Economics and Ideas.