Ilion Johnson News Today

Middle east. Whoever gave a thought to kurds, for example. Who. But this is as i said, we used to know a heck of a lot about south africa. Now that knowledge has faded. And now we are experts or semi experts on the middle east and about what region next. He knows. I think, you know, what youre saying, the intimation. The first answer to your question is stop reading the New York Times. [laughter] much more than it used 210 or even my commentary. There is a sort of classic effort to say what is i...

One piece of good news is that sense september 11th a lot of people have become very, very interested in the middle east, and they never were before. There were forced to become interested in the middle east. Not long ago i asked professor lewis was born in 1916, very, very few people in the west when he was. Did you ever think that your field would become so important there would be such interest in your field. He said, no, never. And that is good news, that there are lots of people who know ab...