[lbo-talk] Fwd for quotation if you want

[Shane Mage]

>...Saudi Arabia and Wahabbe Islam was the direct product of the
>  >British empire and its great war hero and liberal, Sir Lawrence.

Completely false, as regards Lawrence.  He had won the Hashemites
to the Allied cause by promising, with FO authorization, that the
British would support their ascendancy in Arabia.  When the British
betrayed that promise by backing the Sauds, and fobbing the
Hashemites off with an ersatz "Jordanian" kingdom and the poisoned
chalice of Iraq, Lawrence felt disgraced and personally betrayed.
He died a disillusioned and embittered man.

Shane Mage

  "Mortals immortals, immortals mortals,

  living their deaths, dying their lives"

Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 62