From: George Sherwood 

The more I read, the more I am convinced we can trace most of the world's
problems back to the UK.   I thought this was an interesting read
since he is presenting many of the same cases that the anti-war people do
today. And it worked out so well for the region last time when the Brits
just got up and left. Not.

George

http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/iraq/history/1920arabia.htm

"The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia 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
communiques 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 are to-day not far from a
disaster."

....

"Our government is worse than the old Turkish system. They kept
fourteen thousand local conscripts embodied, and killed a yearly average of
two hundred Arabs in maintaining peace. We keep ninety thousand men, with
aeroplanes, armoured cars, gunboats, and armoured trains. We have killed
about ten thousand Arabs in this rising this summer. We cannot hope to
maintain such an average: it is a poor country, sparsely peopled; but Abd
el Hamid would applaud his masters, if he saw us working. We are told the
object of the rising was political, we are not told what the local people
want. It may be what the Cabinet has promised them. A Minister in the House
of Lords said that we must have so many troops because the local people
will not enlist."

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