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Quote by: brien Well, if the Europeans can't fix something like this in their own backyard, step up to the plate and unite to get a genuine peace settled in down there, then perhaps the Middle East is headed for a "final war" that will ultimately detrmine who lives and who is destroyed. And in this final conflagration, the US should have no part whatsoever. |
Our 'own back yard', I understand that you live a long way from the place in dispute, but you are in dire need of a geography lesson: -
The middle east is not in Europe, it occupies a part of North Africa and Asia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_east
Oh and Russia does not so much overlap into Asia as it overlaps from Asia into Europe. Looking at the map, we can see the vast majority of Russia is in Asia and a tiny portion is in Europe.
Claiming that Israel and Lebannon are in in Europes backyard is like Clamining that Columbia, which is rife with problems, is in the USA's own back yard.