The big difference is that now a really outside interloper is calling the shots. In times past, the competition was between a much more local crowd -- people who had been somewhat around the region for some time.

For about 50 reasons, Uncle Sam and functionaries are about as foreign as you can be in that region. When you add the clear fact that many of the people in the area believe, rightly or wrongly, that denizens of Uncle Samistan live quite high on the hog from the spoils of foreign exploits, it doesn't surprise me that Uncle Samsonites are regarded as a foreign body, an invasive organism, the sort of which one's body will rouse all sorts of immune system defenses to rout.

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