Kishore

Kishore Mahbubani is the current dean of the School of National Policy of the National University of Singapore, NUS. This School ranks with Harvard University Kennedy School; and NUS is ranked in the top 25 of world universities.
What I have learnt from his book, Beyond the Age of Innocence, is that
(1). it is American technology that has brought about globalization
and with it, distance and separation has ended for every human being on this planet
(2). the consequence is that everyone is informed of everything in an instant; the consequence for this is that there is a critical shift in disposition of the umma of Islam with the result that:
            - once 1.3 billion hated the Israelis for the pain and 
              humiliation they wielded upon their kin in Palestine but                   not the Americans as then, the saw the US as a secondary                 players in Palestine
            - today, 1.3 billion hate the Americans for their doings for 
              Israel as they now see them as critical primary players in 
              Palestine.

In this, Israel is correct in seeing and saying to America:

You are in the same boat with us.

The oddest thing is thing is that there is never been any published research done that confirms if the average American taxpayer really wants to be in this same boat with Israelis on this matter?

Certainly in John J. Mearsheimers's and Stephan M. Walt's book on The Israeli Lobby and US Foreign Policy, if you read in between the lines, you can surmise that both these professors certainly do not want to be on this same boat with Israel; and they argue the case for America not to be as it is not necessary for Israel's sake for America to be in this same boat.

To be in this same boat is for every American, every day to live in the dread and fear of a terror attack, just the way Israelis live.

Check around and you will realize that there are many countries whose people do not live each day with dread and fear of a terror attack. We in Canada do, because one General Sinclair of Canada, took us to War in Kandahar, Kunduz and Kabul against the Muslims. There, like the Americans, we got whacked and whacked again. We did not win. And like the US, not a small number of our boys came home with PTSD.