Well, now, "crying wolf" would be an accurate assessment if there weren't any wolf, but obviously somebody is in the sheepfold.

If "the Arab world" really supposes that the "wolf" is the US government – that the US government would shut itself down for any length of time, and would purposely do so much to hinder its own capitalist economy, for the single purpose of "justify[ing] a war on Islam by calling it a war on terrorism" – then "the Arab world" is allowing itself to be deluded by anti-American propaganda. And to think that people call us "insular".