I have only read the first few pages of this today, but already I am blown away by how this short story seems almost prophetic of today's global anti-americanism:

"I can't believe the hate shit I see about America," said the heavy man. "You know how much money we gave away to people, just gave away, for nothing? Billions and billions. Peace Corps, development aid . . . for decades. Any disaster anywhere, and we fell all over ourselves to give food, medicine . . . Then the Russians go down and the whole world turns against us like we were monsters."

From the Muslim narrator:

"To think that once, the West has held us in its armored hands. It had treated Islam like a natural resource, its invincible armies plowing throught the lands of the faithful like bulldozers. The West had chopped ourt world up into colonies, and smiled upon us with its awful schizophrenic perfidy."

That this was written in 1990, but talks about things like the ascendency of a unified Arab nation over us resulting from a collapse of our banking system makes me almost frightenend to finish it.