Quite obviously power will continue to play a central role in global politics as it always does. But usually there is something else.

Many of the most difficult questions concerning the role of ethnic minorities centers on language.

I think fundamentalism is this radical attitude toward one's own identity and civilization as compared to other people's identities and cultures.

I don't say that the West is united, I don't suggest that.

Turkey has its own interests and historically, Turkey conquered most of the Arab world, and the Arabs had to fight wars of liberation to free themselves from the Turks. That's in the past and that doesn't necessarily shape what is going on but it's there and it's there in people's memories.

Also, of course, for most of this time most Americans thought of America as a white country with, at best, only a very segregated and subordinate role for blacks.

Obviously Pakistan and the U.S. are very different countries, but we have common geopolitical interests in preventing communist take over in Afghanistan and hence, now that Pakistan has a government that we can cooperate with, even though it is a military government, we are working together with them in order to promote our common interests. But obviously we also differ with Pakistan on a number of issues.