Like all caricatures, this European view has had some truth to it. And, though Europeans have lamented that fate has allocated the real power in the Middle East to their crass cousins, they have nonetheless done pretty well there, not least commercially, simply by not being American.
正如所有讽刺画画的那样，欧洲人的观点确实有可取之处。虽然欧洲人也哀叹命运竟然把主宰中东的实权交到了自己鲁莽的美国亲戚手里，但欧洲人在中东其实也成绩斐然，取得的成就也不仅仅是在商业上的，原因很简单，只要中东人知道你不是美国佬就行了。