Lawrence (of Arabia's) Unhappy Legacy Still Casts a Shadow over the Middle East

The Telegraph ^ | May 19, 2005 | James Barr

[Tax-chick]

I don't know about the flag ... never thought about it! I'll check out some sources.

The Turks were horrid. Even worse under Ataturk than in the last years of the Ottomans, if possible. It could be that the individual Bey of Deraa wasn't as bad as presented, but on the whole, the presentation was consistent with everything I've read.

[PzGr43]

>Sorry, I won't read anything debunking Lawrence.
>

Seconded.

[PzGr43]

>Odd duck, to be sure. I think Lawrence's real
>legacy wasn't so much that he gave Mecca over
>to the Arabs per se but that he left the field
>open to the House of Saud and its Wahhabi
>backers in the mid-20's. It is that more
>than broken promises that has led to the
>current radicalism that is backed by oil
>wealth. There is simply no way Lawrence
>could have anticipated that.

Thus destroying five thousand years of complete peace in Arabia / Middle East ... ?

[Tax-chick]

If it wasn't for Lawrence, the Middle East would be just like California by now. (smirk)

[montag813]

T.E. Lawrence was a fag whose sodomy with the Arabs clouded his vision of their evil. If the Turks still controlled Arab lands, there would be no conflict there.

[montag813]

There's not a single woman in LOA! It's been called homo erotic actually.

Well, many Arabs are homos, and wasn't T.E. a fag too?

[Riptides]

That was his last name.

[PzGr43]

>>Was not the entire movie shot in Jordan?

>The Nefud scenes were filmed in Morocco. The
>officers club (located in Cairo in the film)
>is actually the Plaza de España in Sevilla
>Spain (at least the outdoor scenes).
>

I am much interested. Where did you learn of this ? Do you know exactly where ?