Babylon the Great

Checking out the modern day location for Babylon on Google Earth led me to a surprising discovery. I typed in Babylon in the search section and almost 40 locations popped up in one small area of earth. No, not the place in Mesopatamia between the river Tigris and the Euphrates. In fact that place didn't pop up at all. It seems that archeological features are not so prevalent on Google Earth.
No. All of the 40 or so spots were placed around the land between the two rivers, (well three perhaps,) the Hudson, the East and the Raritan rivers which pass through and around New York.
I've read many articles where people comment that the Babylon the Great mentioned in Revelation is linked in some way to New York and now even Google Earth confirms many places where the name of Babylon is prevalent within the city limits. Perhaps the correlation is stronger than we think.
The modern day city of Al Hillah lies within a couple of km from the ruins of the old city of Babylon in Iraq, a city perhaps with a deeper history and its territories marked with the battle scars of millenia, where even today, we know of fighting and battles going on between factions within Iraq and the armies of the world "pretending" to be there in the name of peace.
I wonder whose leader is more dangerous?

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