Good points

Submitted by Devasahayam (United States), May 16, 2008 at 14:29

The Arab nations you mentioned (Saudi, Kuwait, Bahrain) were all created artificially by UK--or more accurately in a land-giveaway by T.L. Lawrence (aka "Lawrence of Arabia"), whose contribution is much-exaggerated and glamourised. Reality was that Lawrence contributed squat, but Edmund Allenby was the one who defeated the Ottoman Turks; basically Lawrence had to give away these lands to the allies (who were "Johnny-come-latelies" to battles in which Allenby was involved) as he was a near-predatory homosexual, and was caught by some of them (source: Ilana Mercer).

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