"Brett" wrote in message
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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.....


The Arabs didnt agree, thats why there was a revolt which the
British supported after all.

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....


Leaving tends to indicate they had learned the Empires are passe

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....


Dont hold your breath, Iraq before the Baath party takeover
was nominally a constitutional monarchy with an elected
parliament.

Keith