Patrick Swayze: Middle East Scholar October 26, 2004 By Debbie Schlussel Does consuming wontons at a Chinese restaurant make you an expert on Sino-American relations? Patrick Swayze thinks so. Just a week before the election, that’s the logic Swayze—the has-been “Dirty Dancing” actor—used in an absurd interview he gave to generate press for his wife’s latest failed film, “One Last Dance.” Speaking with Agence France Presse (it figures he’d pick the French) while in Warsaw, Swayze criticized the United States for being “insensitive” and “disrespectful” in Iraq. “I know a great deal about the Middle East because I’ve been raising...