"John Cook" wrote:
On Fri, 23 Apr 2004 10:58:04 GMT, "Brett" wrote:
"John Cook" wrote:
See also
http://212.2.162.45/news/story.asp?j...64&n=100247763
In a major change of strategy, the US is planning to offer government
jobs in Iraq to former senior officers of Saddam Hussein's military
and the ousted Baath Party.
In the 1920's a revolt instigated by Shia clerics against the British had
a
significant and long lasting effect...
The British are well versed in this sort of thing, due to many many
conflicts,
They might be well versed but how they and the French divided up the Ottoman
Empire is the primary reason the area is still screwed up - the world might
have been better off if they had just left the Turks in charge.....
perhaps somebody should listen to them!,
Eisenhower didn't and the way the British left Aden in the 1960's doesn't
support the view that they learnt anything during that half century of
empire....
T.E.Lawrence's
'twelve pillars' is still relevent even today.
I always thought it was seven.... and a working Arab democracy might be a
good start....