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To: Paleo Conservative

Actually, Pakistan *is* the Middle East. Turkey, Egypt, etc., constitute the Near East, but idiot Western journalists call even all of North Africa the Middle East.


15 posted on 05/04/2010 6:59:30 AM PDT by dangus
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To: dangus
Actually, Pakistan *is* the Middle East. Turkey, Egypt, etc., constitute the Near East, but idiot Western journalists call even all of North Africa the Middle East.

The Near East: Turkey and the Ottoman territories in the Balkans

Middle East: The Levant through to Persia

Far East: Burma and points east.

India is large enough to be in a class of its own.

61 posted on 05/04/2010 8:12:54 AM PDT by Oztrich Boy (great thing about being a cynic: you can enjoy being proved wrong)
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