In a message dated 3/16/2003 10:27:19 PM Eastern Standard Time,
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<< "The term Old Europe is applied to a pre-Indo-European culture of
     Europe, a culture matricfocal and probably matrilinear, agricultural
     and sedentary, egalitarian and peaceful. It contrasted sharply with
     the ensuing proto-Indo-European culture which was patriarchal,
     stratified, pastoral, mobile, and war-oriented, superimposed on all
     Europe, except the southern and western fringes, in the course of
     three waves of infiltration from the Russian steppe, between 4500 and
     2500 BC." >>

"Old Europe" is also the name of a nice German restaurant in Washington, D.C.
 Somehow I don't think Rumsfeld had either of these concepts in mind.

David Haberstich

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