> The Hindu > > Tuesday, Jul 30, 2002 > > Jordan opposes action against Iraq
<snip> > [King Abdullah] warned that the hawks in the Bush administration, > pressing for an attack on Iraq, posed a threat to American "strategic > interests'' in West Asia. I saw "the Middle East" referred to as "West Asia" once before and thought it was a brilliant piece of political correctness. But is it really just a standard term for the area in Indian papers? That'd be ever better. Michael