Just when we thought we might get away from the middle east...
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Canada, same fucking area as Mexico.It's the same fucking area
Big deal... we'd be trading mostly sand niggers for mostly real niggers
And Libya is considered the "middle east" technically anyway
You're stupider.
Eisenhower's doc may have been 'the first to officially use the term'.. (the first what?), I couldn't be bothered checking that, but it's entirely irrelevant anyway. The phrase has been in use for much longer than that.... and did you miss the bit there where your State Department defined the region to 'including only' a whole lot of countries, none of which were Libya?
Libya is North Africa.
Myself, I think of the Middle East as being from the Suez up through Israel into Syria, across to Iran, maybe Pakistan (though I'd think of that more as South Asia, in with India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, etc), and south into the Arabian peninsula. It'd incorporate the Sinai peninsula, so technically it includes Egypt, but I certainly wouldn't include Libya.
Nor, according to your own quote, would the State Department.
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"Here's Reeeeeeeeeeey!" /ed mcmahon
Right on que.
In the words of Fred G. Sanford and the 'G' stands for greasy, "You big dummy."
yeah but as soon as they get it online and the output is less than projected, they will whine about how the sun is anti-semetic and has been trying to hold them down
From the very first line on Wikipedia
The Sahara is in Libya and Egypt.
Libya and Egypt are in North Africa.
That section of North Africa is considered the "middle east".
The section referred to by the G8 as the "greater middle east":
Shut.
The.
Fuck.
Up.
The Sahara is in Libya and Egypt.
Libya and Egypt are in North Africa.
That section of North Africa is considered the "middle east".
The section referred to by the G8 as the "greater middle east":
Shut.
The.
Fuck.
Up.
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Somehow I don't see worthless Algeria nailing a contract for a multibillion dollar solar panel system.
Somehow I see Libya and Egypt getting that instead.
Somehow I see Libya and Egypt getting that instead.
Technically I agree with you.
I think the "middle east" stops at Libya.
I think the "middle east" stops at Libya.
I commend you for finding a definition of the middle east that allows you to say you weren't totally wrong on a technicality.
That doesn't change the fact that you thought the Sahara Desert extended into the Arabian Peninsula, or even worse, that you thought the Arabian Peninsula was the Sahara Desert. AKA you would fail 4th grade geography.
That doesn't change the fact that you thought the Sahara Desert extended into the Arabian Peninsula, or even worse, that you thought the Arabian Peninsula was the Sahara Desert. AKA you would fail 4th grade geography.
From the very first line on [strike]Wikipedia[/strike]
Wikipedia
North Africa or Northern Africa is the northernmost region of the African continent, linked by the Sahara to Sub-Saharan Africa. Geopolitically, the United Nations definition of Northern Africa includes seven countries or territories; Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Sudan, Tunisia, and Western Sahara[1] Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Mauritania, and Libya together are also referred to as the Maghreb or Maghrib, while Egypt is a transcontinental country by virtue of the Sinai Peninsula, which is in Asia.
(Gee, there sure is a whole lot of the Sahara desert on that picture.)
The Sahara is in Libya, Egypt, and Sudan.
Libya, Egypt, and Sudan are in North Africa.
That section of North Africa is considered the "middle east".
Only by you, Mr Schmo.
since you seem to like bold and big writing to make a point:
Greater middle east.
Meaning "middle east plus some other stuff".
Indeed, you really should.
The term "middle east" sprang from colonial European world views.. North Africa had long been established as its own region, right back from ancient Greek and Roman times. The Far East referred basically to China and Japan, though South-East Asia got lumped into that, too. India was its own domain (which at the time included Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka/'Ceylon'). The "Middle" east then, was essentially referring to the closer Asian regions.. So from the 'India' of that time (which as I said, included Pakistan) back through the rest of Asia - ie up to the eastern edge of the Med and the Sinai peninsula. Not North Africa and most certainly not the Sahara.
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Could be relatively short lived, climate change could fuck that all up.
Newsflash: you're an idiot
Dear Stupid,
Egypt and Libya have LONG been considered part of the middle east, which is who I was referring to in the title anyway.
And that wasn't even so much of my point of the title to begin with... the actual point was A) remove oil from the middle east, what are you left with? Answer is B) a whole fucking bunch of desert, where they can throw out almost endless miles of solar panels, and probably will.
