[re_tail20]

Subtitle:

And there’s very little the U.S. can do to stop it

[Star Traveler]

It just took 100 years to do it ...

[Don Corleone]

Lawrence of Arabia may have been a British hero but he was just a political tool. The Brits/Frogs wanted the energy for their fleet and didn’t care what got screwed up because of it.

The Arabs on the other hand were tribal then and they are tribal now.

[Jimmy Valentine]

This is exactly correct. The whole area will revert to religious and tribal subdivisions that precede Sykes-Picot This will ease tensions but these countries will not be a factor except locally

[aimhigh]

Splitting up Arabia and Persia back then was pure genius.

[mojito]

Yes, it's all the fault of those terrible colonial powers.

The left is so predictable. But because he's writing in the NR, Judis can't use the usual dailykos memes and blame Dick Cheney.

So he's going to blame a French colonial administrator. That shows everyone how sophisticated and Ivy League he is.

[re_tail20]

” ISIS won’t get its Caliphate, but the United States won’t get its United States of Arabia either.”

This is the first time I learned we even wanted a “United States of Arabia”. Still, the first one is fine with me.

[SJackson]

Middle East and terrorism, occasional political and Jewish issues Ping List. High Volume

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