Benghazi smackdown. Thank you Mrs. Murray.

[thesquanderer]

18. Actually, Abu Ghraib is a city

It is the city that housed the prison, as Benghazi was the city that housed the embassy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ghraib

Context may be important, but being able to locate something on a map is often a very small and even insignificant part of that context. There are times where the geography is important to know, where the location is very relevant to events because of terrain or access to resources or proximity to allies, etc. But often, the geographic location of an event is pretty much irrelevant... its location is not going to have an impact on your position. You don't have to be able to locate Iran on a map to take issue with Ahmadinejad, or be able to locate Cuba to have an opinion about Guantanamo, or to be able to locate Pakistan to discuss the moral implications of drone attacks, or to be able to locate the city of Abu Ghraib (or even the country of Iraq) to have an opinion about torture, waterboarding, etc.