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The twain begin to meet
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"OH, EAST IS East and West is West, and never the twain shall
meet." This old dictum of geography came to mind last week when Pope
Benedict XVI crossed from Europe to Asia, visiting Turkey. The pope
reversed himself to indicate support for Turkey's admission to the
European Union, which would be a decisive bridging of the Bosporus.
Can the continental polarity be overcome? The conviction that the
East-West divide is unbridgeable is a mark of European defensiveness,
the flip side of which is European aggressiveness. "The Ballad of
East and West," from which the "twain" line comes, was written, ...
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