Fouad Ajami's romance with America revealed

"“In the early 1950s, when I was coming of age, in Beirut, my one great passion–and that of other boys like me–was Hollywood Westerns. Ours was still a quaint city, and Lebanon a small, hemmed-in country. The Western, with its great outdoors, its drifters, its sassy women and gunslingers, held me in thrall. It was from Audie Murphy and Gary Cooper and Jane Russell and Susan Hayward that I conceived my attachment and my romance for America."  But my father loved American Westerns  but that never made him a Zionist, like Ajami.