Nobody read this stuff, right?
…There’s no getting out of the conclusion that we have made an immense failure here. The system must have been far more at fault than anything that I or anyone else suspected. It will have to be fundamentally changed and what that may mean exactly I don’t know.
No one knows exactly what they do want, least of all themselves, except that they don’t want us.
Gertrude Bell, British administrator in Basra, Iraq, 1920
No one knows exactly what they do want, least of all themselves, except that they don’t want us.
Gertrude Bell, British administrator in Basra, Iraq, 1920