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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,

    Thanks

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    Who cares?

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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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    It would be nice if someday more of it were worth calling "home"...
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    Quote Originally Posted by giggs88
    Who cares?
    Probably people from that region

    Quote Originally Posted by ZFBoxcar
    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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    Quote Originally Posted by Confed999
    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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    Quote Originally Posted by bigross86
    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.
    No man is free until all men are free - John Hossack
    I agree completely with this Administration’s goal of a regime change in Iraq-John Kerry
    even if that enforcement is mostly at the hands of the United States, a right we retain even if the Security Council fails to act-John Kerry
    He may even miscalculate and slide these weapons off to terrorist groups to invite them to be a surrogate to use them against the United States. It’s the miscalculation that poses the greatest threat-John Kerry

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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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    Quote Originally Posted by TopHatter
    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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    Quote Originally Posted by bigross86
    Like I said, let's keep what we got before we can try and make anything else better.
    It's the same fight.
    No man is free until all men are free - John Hossack
    I agree completely with this Administration’s goal of a regime change in Iraq-John Kerry
    even if that enforcement is mostly at the hands of the United States, a right we retain even if the Security Council fails to act-John Kerry
    He may even miscalculate and slide these weapons off to terrorist groups to invite them to be a surrogate to use them against the United States. It’s the miscalculation that poses the greatest threat-John Kerry

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    Quote Originally Posted by ZFBoxcar
    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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    Quote Originally Posted by Alamgir
    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,

    Thanks
    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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    Quote Originally Posted by Confed999
    Not many places in that neighborhood got it as good as you.
    Home is what you make it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lunatock
    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.
    No man is free until all men are free - John Hossack
    I agree completely with this Administration’s goal of a regime change in Iraq-John Kerry
    even if that enforcement is mostly at the hands of the United States, a right we retain even if the Security Council fails to act-John Kerry
    He may even miscalculate and slide these weapons off to terrorist groups to invite them to be a surrogate to use them against the United States. It’s the miscalculation that poses the greatest threat-John Kerry

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