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Old 11-13-2005, 13:11 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Rename the "Middle East" forum
The term 'Middle East' is an unofficial political term applied by the Americans. It is not the proper or official name for the region.

This forum should be renamed to "West & Central Asia".

Please consider it,

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Old 11-13-2005, 13:28 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Old 11-13-2005, 13:38 PM   #3 (permalink)
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It was actually applied by the British and French, and is used by the UN. The Americans had nothing to do with the term.
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Old 11-13-2005, 14:17 PM   #4 (permalink)
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It would be nice if someday more of it were worth calling "home"...
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Who cares?
Probably people from that region

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It was actually applied by the British and French, and is used by the UN. The Americans had nothing to do with the term.
What? You mean this is something that rest of the world can't blame on us?
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Old 11-13-2005, 15:25 PM   #6 (permalink)
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It would be nice if someday more of it were worth calling "home"...
I dunno about you, but I'm happy with what I've got right now. If they'd stop trying to take it from us, I'd be happier!
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I dunno about you, but I'm happy with what I've got right now.
Not many places in that neighborhood got it as good as you.
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Like I said, let's keep what we got before we can try and make anything else better.
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What? You mean this is something that rest of the world can't blame on us?
Alamgir has already blamed you all !

How can you escape from not taking the blame for the ills of the world?!
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Like I said, let's keep what we got before we can try and make anything else better.
It's the same fight.
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It was actually applied by the British and French, and is used by the UN. The Americans had nothing to do with the term.
Everything is the fault of the infidel Americans, I guess.
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Like it says in Team America World Police - "America, F**k Yeah!"
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The term 'Middle East' is an unofficial political term applied by the Americans. It is not the proper or official name for the region.

This forum should be renamed to "West & Central Asia".

Please consider it,

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Middle East is the appropriate term. West Asia is an alternative if it pleases you. But thats not the official stand which others have to take. And Central Asia is not at all in the picture, it is not part of the middle east. To think so is fallacious.
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Not many places in that neighborhood got it as good as you.
Home is what you make it.
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Home is what you make it.
You're right, but alot of those folks have a hand in their pocket, a gun at their head, and nowhere to turn for help. It's hard to get anything done that way.
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