Three kinds of countries in the Middle East . . .

. . . is how Mona Charen sees the region.

A cursory glance at the Middle East and South Asia — the region from which the threat emanates — reveals three kinds of societies.

In the first group are nations whose governments are (at least outwardly) friendly toward the United States: Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the small Gulf states fall into this group. In these countries, the people hate the United States because we are seen as propping up corrupt dictators.

The second group consists of nations with governments hostile to the United States: Iran, (formerly) Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq, among others belong in this group. The United States is highly popular among the people of these countries, probably because they assume that if their awful governments hate us, we must be doing something right.
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Last, there are the countries in which the governments are friendly to us and the people are, as well. That is true of only two countries: Turkey and Israel, the sole democracies in the region.