Let us keep the whole sentence in which 193° appears. It is not the border, it is the end of the angled border.
The same western limit, beginning at the same initial point, proceeds thence in a course nearly southwest, through Behring’s Straits and Behring’s Sea, so as to pass midway between the northwest point of the island of St. Lawrence and the southeast point of Cape Choukotski, to the meridian of one hundred and seventy-two west longitude; thence, from the intersection of that meridian, in a southwesterly direction, so as to pass midway between the island of Attou and the Copper Island of the Kormandorski couplet or group, in the North Pacific Ocean, to the meridian of one hundred and ninety-three degrees west longitude, so as to include in the territory conveyed the whole of the Aleutian Islands east of that meridian.
It is not every thing east of 193°. Again, dividing line is starting midway between the islands of Krusenstern and Ratmanoff, proceeding southwest between St. Lawrence and Cape Choukotski, to midway between Attou and Copper and continuing in this direction until it reaches the 193 meridian.
So how can Copper Island be east of the boundary, when the boundary line is defined to be east of the island?
Copper Island is not part of the Aleutian Islands. Aleutian Islands, chain of small islands that separate the Bering Sea (north) from the main portion of the Pacific Ocean (south) and extend in an arc southwest, then northwest, for about 1,100 miles (1,800 km) from the tip of the Alaska Peninsula to Attu Island, Alaska, U.S. {from theEncyclopædia Britannica}
As stated in the treaty it is part of the Kormandorski couplet.
Why is it so important to you do defend your president?
I posted the same refutation of this same myth back when George Bush was accused of it. As several of us have pointed out, this has been refuted on Free Republic many times over many years.
Why do you continue to call it a myth that the Hon. Joseph Miller wrote the following:
With your help, I now know Joe Miller wrote that. It only lowers my opinion of Joe Miller. It does not change the words of the 1867 treaty.