[Michael.SF.]

It might help to do a little research before geetin worked up over this issue.

Alaskan island 'give-a-way'

[3rdcoastislander]

Right, I did the same all the islands look like they are closer to Russia than Alaska.

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

I’m not agreeing nor disagreeing with you — just wondering why you’d rely on factcheck.org for “facts.”

[Mr Apple]

I believe that more discussion of this has merit if this giveaway can be legally stopped by socialist Obama. If this posting has no merit and can not help this situation, then I suppose this posting should just be deleted, however, I don't think it is burdensome on fr bandwidth for simple discussion.

Excerpt:

[Carl] Olson believes that the United States has lost three groups of islands: one off the coast of Alaska, one in the central Pacific, and one in the Caribbean. He asserts that some of the lost Alaskan islands -- there are eight in all, including Wrangel Island, which he describes as being "the size of Delaware and Rhode Island combined" -- were acquired from Russia in the 1867 Alaska Purchase and that the rest were claimed for the United States upon their discovery, by various explorers, in 1881. Today, though, they are all claimed by Russia -- something that is not contested by the United States. This bothers Olson. A lot. He filed several inquiries with the State Department and never, he says, received a satisfactory response.