XPost: alt.religion.jehovahs-witn, alt.bible, alt.atheism
XPost: alt.talk.creationism
From: rj@yahoo.com
Lady Chatterly wrote in news:6d1997b.763a35c4
@news-text.cableinet.net:
> In article <1111276277.185597.4900@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>
> Daryl Krupa wrote:
>>
>>Actually, Chris, that's a misapprehension.
>> The Middle East starts is the mountains east of
>>Mesopotamia, and includes India and Burma.
>
> The U.
>
>>Mesopotamia is the heart of the Near East;
>>Egypt is just across the Sinai Peninsula from
>>the Near East, so you shuld have written
>>"Near Eastern" civilisation.
>
> Does it make you proud?
>
>>Mesopotamia is only in the Middle East if you are
>>talking about post-World War II politics, because
>>that is when Americans started to become interested
>>in the area, and that is when they started to use
>>the wrong name for the area, partly because the
>>British war effort in the area was part of their
>>Middle East command, which was based in India.
>> American late included Egypt in the Middle East,
>>for no good reason, and withou ever wondering where
>>that would put the Near East (just across the Iron
>>Curtain, perhaps?), or wondering what would then be
>>between the Middle East and the Far East (the "East
>>of the Middle Distance", maybe?).
>> It's a usage born out of the basic geographical
>>ignorance of the average American news media hack.
>> you'll get more respect if you don't perpetuate
>>that parochial confusion, and use the proper term
>>of "Near East", instead.
>
> They are not.
>
>>Some maps of the Near East:
>
> And the rest of the internet.
>
>>Other relevant maps can be found here:
>
> We have a Nice day.
>
>>
>
> Snip.
>
> --
> Lady Chatterly
rj
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