[Doctor Raoul]

That still doesn't make any sense. Why would the communications zip through US hubs?

The whole world is one one pair of wires, almost.

There's really no physical reason the hubs can't or shouldn't be in the US.

[Alter Kaker]

The whole world is one one pair of wires, almost.

Wrong. The whole world is a series of tubes.

There's really no physical reason the hubs can't or shouldn't be in the US.

Well, actually, yes, there are plenty of reasons why it would be expensive and impractical to rout all of Iraq's domestic phone calls through the United States of America. The bandwidth costs alone would be prohibitive.