Interesting:

Global Dispatch: From Turkey to Tibet
The Guardian, Monday February 23, 2004

Brian Whitaker tries to pin down the boundaries of the Middle East and discovers that over the years it has been all things to all (self-interested) people

I have been writing about it in the Guardian for almost four years and I'm fairly sure that I have been there, but I have to confess that I don't know for certain where the Middle East is.

The only consolation - for me, if not for those on the receiving end of US Middle East policy - is that the state department, the Pentagon and the military are as confused as I am.

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