American native-informer market is volatile but far more lucrative than Europe’s
Evidence
In the United States, where the situation is quite different, the services that native informers find most profitable have to do with the wars against Muslim countries that George W. Bush’s presidency in particular created and sustained. Thus, where the European market for native informers is prolonged, steady, and longue duree, the American one is unpredictable, volatile, and, precisely for these reasons, more lucrative. The European market yields the native informer a steady but relatively low income, while the American one offers a short-term but quite handsome windfall. — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 339