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11 replies on “The Middle East, redrawn.”
Sounds good. When can we start? :-P
I’m not sure how the Saudis would react to losing their oil fields and retaining the rest of the desert. BTW, wasn’t this map originally drawn up by some of those evil neo-cons at the Weekly Standard or some such other Zionist organ?
They could use their imaginations and the magic wand of fiat to redraw the entire Middle East, but they still couldn’t figure out what to do with the West Bank…
I saw this guy’s advertisement on CNN over the last few weeks…interesting stuff…
Surprisingly, Iran doesn’t look that different.
On the Divide Pakistan guy, I suspect that he needs to be taken with a sack of salt.
“On the Divide Pakistan guy, I suspect that he needs to be taken with a sack of salt.”
I agree but it’s still funny as hell.
@Kenton: Can you blame them? The West Bank is quite possibly unsalvageable for the near future. Too much mismanagement, too much hatred.
Um…. You must have missed the first round of public response to this batsh*t insane ethnic-cleansing proposal from Ralph Peters. It was published in Armed Forces Journal, a commercial non-governmental magazine in June 2006.
And as a response to it, “fascinating” is both weaselly and inadequate. Like calling a requirement for Muslim children in U.S. public schools to wear identifying badges “intriguing.”
Here’s an example of a less non-committal response to Peters’ map.
And as a response to it, “fascinating” is both weaselly and inadequate. Like calling a requirement for Muslim children in U.S. public schools to wear identifying badges “intriguing.”
But it is intriguing. So was the Nazi’s process of forcing Jews to identify themselves similarly. That one fact tells people an enormous amount about Hitler’s Germany. Likewise, this map not only shows its readers an enormous amount about existing national divisions that are not reflected in the state boundaries, but also about the mapmaker. That is, in fact, fascinating.
I am periodically accused by both the left and the right of supporting something by failing to adequately condemn it. That’s foolishness. My calling something “fascinating” that is demonstrably fascinating means nothing more than that.
Nell: There is also the possibility that the idea of implementing the map is so foolhardy, absurd, and far from the original intent that no one felt the need to comment on the possibility.
Sounds good. When can we start? :-P
I’m not sure how the Saudis would react to losing their oil fields and retaining the rest of the desert. BTW, wasn’t this map originally drawn up by some of those evil neo-cons at the Weekly Standard or some such other Zionist organ?
They could use their imaginations and the magic wand of fiat to redraw the entire Middle East, but they still couldn’t figure out what to do with the West Bank…
Can we divide Pakistan too?
http://www.dividepakistan.blogspot.com/
I saw this guy’s advertisement on CNN over the last few weeks…interesting stuff…
Surprisingly, Iran doesn’t look that different.
On the Divide Pakistan guy, I suspect that he needs to be taken with a sack of salt.
“On the Divide Pakistan guy, I suspect that he needs to be taken with a sack of salt.”
I agree but it’s still funny as hell.
@Kenton: Can you blame them? The West Bank is quite possibly unsalvageable for the near future. Too much mismanagement, too much hatred.
Um…. You must have missed the first round of public response to this batsh*t insane ethnic-cleansing proposal from Ralph Peters. It was published in Armed Forces Journal, a commercial non-governmental magazine in June 2006.
And as a response to it, “fascinating” is both weaselly and inadequate. Like calling a requirement for Muslim children in U.S. public schools to wear identifying badges “intriguing.”
Here’s an example of a less non-committal response to Peters’ map.
But it is intriguing. So was the Nazi’s process of forcing Jews to identify themselves similarly. That one fact tells people an enormous amount about Hitler’s Germany. Likewise, this map not only shows its readers an enormous amount about existing national divisions that are not reflected in the state boundaries, but also about the mapmaker. That is, in fact, fascinating.
I am periodically accused by both the left and the right of supporting something by failing to adequately condemn it. That’s foolishness. My calling something “fascinating” that is demonstrably fascinating means nothing more than that.
Nell: There is also the possibility that the idea of implementing the map is so foolhardy, absurd, and far from the original intent that no one felt the need to comment on the possibility.