Subject: Re: My two cents on AMAZ enclaves
Date: Sep 22, 2004 @ 22:49
Author: aletheiak ("aletheiak" <aletheiak@...>)
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yikes
is our mind still clouded again

tomorrow we thought we will already take care of that yesterday

now mike thinks this must be me & i think it must be arif

btw mike that armenian site is indeed lame today

so please try it again tomorrow

it was fine yesterday

but anyway
it is just a government map showing armenia in 2 clumps

the basic metrople plus nagorno karabakh

with no other claves indicated


more below lowell

--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Lowell G. McManus"
<mcmanus71496@m...> wrote:
> Arif wrote:
>
> > American and Western European maps
> > have clouded Mike and almost everybody else's mind on
> > the subject that what maps draw are imaginary lines
> > and not statements of facts. These lines can be
> > imagined by different countries according to their own
> > thought. I have seen enclaves appear and disappear
> > from Bangladeshi maps two or three times knowing full
> > well that they did exist. Just because it didn't show
> > up on a map does not mean it didn't exist. I wouldn't
> > be surprised if such uncertain boundary mapping was
> > the norm instead of the exception outside the Western
> > countries.
>
> All to often, maps are nothing more than propaganda.

a euripidean chorus couldnt have said it better

but is it only the frequency you bewail

well then how often would be not all too often

& how often would be not too often at all

for if only we knew
we will be able to take care of that also long before yesterday


One must consider the
> source.
> I remember entering the Peruvian pavilion at the 1984 New
Orleans world's fair
> to be greeted by a wall-sized map depicting the Peruvian
version of the
> Ecuador-Peru boundary.

why did you ever think to do that

& did it really greet you like that

hola chico
bienvenido to peruse our pavilion
but hay que consider ze source


> Lowell G. McManus
> Leesville, Louisiana, USA