The answers to "why they hate us"

Or some possible answers, anyway. From Turning the Tide: Bush Lying?

In brief, Eisenhower and his staff were concerned in the 1950s about the "campaign of hatred" against us in the Arab world, and understood the reasons: the perception that the US supports harsh and oppressive regimes and blocks democracy and development, and does so to gain control of the energy resources of the region. In later years, that remained true, though new reasons arose. Thus when the Wall St. Journal and others studied attitudes of "moneyed Muslims" (bankers, managers of multinationals, corporate lawyers, etc.) after 9-11, they found the same reasons, along with others: the decisive US support for vicious Israeli repression of Palestinians and robbery of their resources, and the murderous US-UK sanctions that were devastating the civilian society of Iraq. In the streets and villages, the attitudes would be far more extreme. Since Western intellectuals don't like to hear unpleasant truths about themselves, not surprisingly, we are treated instead to a stream of fantasies about "why they hate us".

That's arch-villain Noam Chomsky, at his official weblog over at ZNet.

In the interests of fairness and balance and shit, you can also read the section of criticisms in Wikipedia's Chomsky entry, and there's a page at LeftWatch.com, covering some of the same territory.

Am I meant to have some sort of emotional reaction to the accusation "anti-American"? Other than boredom, that is?