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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (49464)	11/25/2005 1:19:34 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

West Point A friend from Pakistan, who's studying at a liberal arts college in Ohio, is starting a 3-day conference of 300 students discussing American foreign policy. It's taking place in the United States Military Academy in West Point, NY. His round table has to do with MENA (Middle East North Africa) and all viewpoints, left-right, are very well represented on it. Despite Thomas Friedman's dire rant, the drift in American politics and the hijack of the centre by extremists on both left and right, the American Republic remains much as ever an heir to the Roman one. They are both essentially pragmatic, despite the oratory of demagogues (indeed the Republic demand that ambitious and excellent men cast their talents for public service and recognition), the march of history for both is an uninterrupted hegemonic rise. Finally a key point of similarity is the extent to which they were able to cast their assimilative net into barbarian cultures; just as German children were held as hostages in Roman cities and tutored in Roman ways so do now Pakistani Muslim student debate in the citadel of American military might the foreign policy of that great nation... latif.blogspot.com