I recall Peter O'Toole saying to the Arab leader, in Lawrence of Arabia, "As long as you persist in these petty tribal conflicts you will always remain a little people".
That was true then. It is still true now.
I recall Peter O'Toole saying to the Arab leader, in Lawrence of Arabia, "As long as you persist in these petty tribal conflicts you will always remain a little people".
That was true then. It is still true now.
Lawrence to Sherif Ali: "so long as the Arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people, greedy, barbarous, and cruel, as you are".
Great quote. I site it frequently.
Well, hey, it's worked so well for them the past 1,000 years - why mess with a good thing?
Sitting on the bank of the Tigris River, Achmed and Tariq are sharing pictures -
Achmed: And this is a picture of my young son Mustafa - he died as a martyr in a suicide bomb attack at the age of 17.
Tariq: And this is a picture of my son, Mohammed who also did the same thing - at the age of 16.
Achmed - Yes - the blow up fast, don't they?
What we really ought to start is an all-out war between the Shiites and the Sunnis -- let the Shiites, Ismailies, Allawis, Boris, Dervishes, etc. line up together and fight the Sunnis, Wahabis, Deobands.