01-20-07, 10:32 AM
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Stowaway
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How America Met the Mideast
Sounds like an interesting read for the history buffs.
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Today, the conventional view is that George W. Bush took the United States on a radical departure when he declared a policy to transform the Middle East and that, as soon as he leaves office, U.S. policy will return to an alleged tradition of realism, rooted in the hard-headed pursuit of tangible national interests. This is both bad history and bad prophecy, as Oren shows in Power, Faith, and Fantasy, a series of fascinating and beautifully written stories about individual Americans over the past four centuries and their contact with Middle Eastern cultures.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...011901298.html
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