Sheldon
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- Apr 2, 2010
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Technically Afghanistan is not in the Middle East but I get your point, we can't just leave though until we liquidate all our assets there and don't need them for their oil anymore.
Just to be a pedantic douche...I think the Middle East is a geo-political term that includes North Africa, down to Oman, up to Turkey, and out to Pakistan.
I thought the Middle East was just the Arab countries like Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon and out to Iran?
Just based on what I've been reading lately, it seems like Libya is getting lumped in with the ME, same with Pakistan. But I just googled it and the images that come up show Egypt to western Afghanist, up to Turkey and down to Oman and part of Sudan--so I think you are correct.
How about this--Middle East can be used to describe any nation that has camels and is predominantly Muslim.