Shifting sands in Middle East

Despite US facilitating regime changes, widespread anger shows it needs to change its policies toward Arab countries

On the surface, the latest wave of anti-US rage in the Middle East, which left Chris Stevens, the United States' ambassador to Libya, and three other embassy staff members dead, was triggered by a controversial US-made film deemed offensive to Islam.

However, the longstanding animosity toward the United States in the Middle East has at least four causes that Washington needs to address.