Tuesday, July 18, 2006

geography lesson

to all those nutcases who keep referring to the present conflict in the middle east as "world war three":

this is the world:



this is the world with a circle indicating the bits involved in the conflict that these "world war three" folks have been talking about:



and for reference, here's a rough map with the bits that participated in the last world war circled (note: i've probably missed some circles. if i wasn't sure whether a country was involved in WW2, i left them out):



if the current conflict in israel-gaza-lebanon counts as a "world war," then we should be up to world war 345,345,989,943 by now.