|
|
Article: The U.S.-Middle East Partnership Initiative: building hope for the years ahead.
- Article from:
- DISAM Journal
- Article date:
- January 1, 2003
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2003 Defense Institute of Security Assistance Management. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
[The following are excerpts from the speech given at the Heritage Foundation, Washington, D.C., December 12, 2002.]
The Middle East is a vast region of vast importance to the American people. Millions of us worship in churches, mosques, and synagogues, professing the three great faiths that were born in the lands between the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf. Our language and traditions are filled with references to Jerusalem, to Bethlehem, to Mecca. Our phone books list names such as Mousavi, Levy, and Shaheen that speak of deep family roots in the Middle East. Our farmers grow wheat, and our workers make airplanes, computers, and many other products that we ...