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Kasz216 on 20 July 2012
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Aielyn said:
Kasz216 said:
Aielyn said:
Kasz216 said:
No, but Afghanistan is in the middle east region politically.

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.

That map includes Russia, Greece, and Somalia, too. Are you claiming that those three countries are part of the Middle East, too?

The map is just a general region, containing all of the Middle East and then including any other countries that are also in the vicinity.

And given that this is about Adinnieken's comment that "Anyone who says anything about the middle-east isn't about oil, is lying", I don't think that "sometimes it's politically included" is really a valid counterargument. The point is that the *actual* middle east is what is being talked about, not the greater middle east.

Eastern Russia and Somalia... yeah.

Fine, if you want to be nitpicky.  Iraq wasn't about oil.  As can be seen by how the US is getting royally spanked by other countries when it comes to oil contracts being awarded.

Hell, despite there being all kinds of oil in Libya, I don't think that was oil motivated either.  Afterall Libya was cooperating with the west, giving it everything it wanted lately.