A firm grasp of geopolitics

[webofevil]

When I was a kid I always thought the two countries were the other way round on the map. After Desert Storm I still managed to believe this. Even now, having spent the last couple of years reading arguably far too much about the region, I still sometimes have to remind myself that Iraq's the one on the left. Wouldn't it just be simpler if we just doctored our atlases accordingly?


Image created last year as part of a fruitless rearguard action against cornfedpig being right during a frank exchange of views earlier in the pub.

Comments

[webofevil.livejournal.com]

> it's geographically correct and you're wrong.

Ah, but surely all reality is subjective, etc.


> Changing the atlas, are you American by any chance?

Being British, I can only lobby long and pointlessly for the atlas to be changed.

[gazz.livejournal.com]

Both very true. I am defeated.