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Lt Col Charlie Brown
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And it set him off on a lifetimes of loving the Arabs regardless of what they did.
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MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D.
MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D.
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That it did.
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CPT Gurinder (Gene) Rana
CPT Gurinder (Gene) Rana
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Indeed, it did Ma'am.
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CPT Gurinder (Gene) Rana
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Lawrence of Arabia is who he was; the one who defeated the Turks on Camelback and the one who won the love of Arabians for his victory.
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MAJ Hugh Blanchard
MAJ Hugh Blanchard
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Unfortunately the goodness of this story came to an end with the Arabs being ultimately betrayed, with English and French bureaucrats drawing arbitrary lines on a map under the Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1916. This secret treaty between France and Great Britain with its arbitrary (and uninformed) lines on the map set the stage for conflict lasting more than a century. The Arabs were not given the independence they were promised, and many peoples, especially the Kurds, were arbitrarily separated by the ill-informed boundaries which divided the Mid-East into British and French spheres of influence.
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SGT Mary G.
SGT Mary G.
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MAJ Hugh Blanchard - Thank you for that. So many folks do not know that history which has influenced modern times so much.
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MAJ Hugh Blanchard
MAJ Hugh Blanchard
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SGT Mary G. - You're welcome. My specialty is Russian History but along the way I've learned a bit about other regions as well. And the Russians have always been interested in the Middle East and Asia.
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