Aielyn said:
No, it's not. It's in the arabic region, but not the middle east. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East Bahrain, Cyprus, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, UAE, and Yemen. Those are the countries of the middle east. There is sometimes reference to "the Greater Middle East", which does include Afghanistan, but that is not the same thing as the middle east, even "politically". Pakistan and Afghanistan are both solidly in Asia, whereas the Middle East is in the borderline region between Europe and Asia (and Africa). |
http://www.sitesatlas.com/Maps/Maps/MEast.htm
Politically it is... which is what I was talking about... afterall if we're talking true geography, Europe isn't really a continent... it's missing SEVERAL geographic needs to be a continent.
Though regardless, neither Afghanistan nor Iraq were about Oil, as can be seen by just how little the US has profited from it. Those who have profited the most have been China, Russia and France.
