From Ellis Sharp at The Sharp Side:
Mesopotamia
The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia [Iraq] into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honour. They have been tricked into it by a steady withholding of information. The Baghdad communiqués are belated, insincere, incomplete. Things have been far worse than we have been told, our administration more bloody and inefficient than the public knows. It is a disgrace to our imperial record, and may soon be too inflamed for any ordinary cure. We today are not far from a disaster.
T E Lawrence (“Lawrence of Arabia”) writing in The Sunday Times, 22 August 1920.
Ah, how times change.
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