>>Now if, as you suggest, these opinions haven't changed, to me that's important because it shows that western actions have had no noticeable positive effect on Arab opinion.
True, they haven't changed. It's hardly important ... because they weren't expected to change. To pick a glaring example, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem continued his antisemitism long after his buddy Hitler was dead and the Waffen-SS troops he helped recruit were disbanded. Did someone imagine the Western actions in WW2 would change his views?
This is internal to Islamic culture, which at the present, is run by the wacko fundamentalists. Fundamentalists by nature have all the answers and thus see no need to change.
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