That British poet was...

Reader comment on item: White House Nonchalance [toward the Middle East]
in response to reader comment: Failure of Administration of understanding Muslims

Submitted by Kevin M (United States), Mar 22, 2006 at 09:32

...the first person to win the Nobel Prize for Literature: Rudyard Kipling.

Just thought I'd throw that in. And, incidentally, Kipling was--and remains--absolutely right in his views re East and West. Howard is no less astute in his observations.

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