Apparently, Ralph Peters’s proposed redrawn map of the Middle East has generated a lot of controversy in Pakistan; Fasi Zaka tries to calm things down by pointing out that the map is only an intellectual exercise — some people apparently took it as official U.S. policy — that tries to address regional injustices, not an exercise in U.S. imperialism.
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Yes, I received ignorant hate mail after I posted that map too…
This is a stupid map. I can’t think of anything else to describe it but that. Islamic Sacred State? If anything needs to be changed about the Middle East it is Israel.