Probably so, until someone stronger knocks it down. That, really, is the main question: so we get control of all that oil. That just means someone else will come along to do to us what we did to the Middle Eastern countries.
Some of the photographs in the Kintzer book are just appalling. At the refinery, the British had lawns, swimming pools, houses, air conditioning, theater, grocers, and a hospital. The Iranian people working the refinery had literally nothing. Their housing was sheets of corrugated scrap iron they'd hammered together and spackled over with mud. When, under pressure, the British oil company actually built shelters they held 4000 people per building and each family had only one blanket's width of space allotted them.
I'd prefer we mind our own business, but I think I'm in the minority there. I half expect a knock on my door --- not from Dee's agency --- sometime demanding explanation.
Heck, I've already said someone should sent a copy of the Kintzer book and TE Lawrence's writings to Obama!
I did, but my spellchecker wouldn't accept it and wouldn't post the piece until I'd 'corrected' it :P Since the voting is under way, I can't correct it until I go to put these up on my own site.
I'm surprised I got away with so few errors considering how tired I was.
So, unfortunately, do I. I keep writing these things and voting for people who think similarly, but it doesn't seem to make a difference.
And I just found out that my Twitter records and other Internet transactions are part of a mass subpoena by the US government because I happen to read the site WikiLeaks and follow it on Twitter.
This essay is absolutely fascinating. I admit to only knowing about a few of the incidents you cite in a peripheral sense, but, just. It's a horrible horrible situation put forth in this entry as something that just pulls you in and doesn't let you go until you're totally shook around and tossed against a wall.
And now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go read the links you put in here.
The links to the historical documents are particularly interesting and an abridged version of TE Lawrence's book, along with Doughty's "Arabia Deserata" is still used when training the military in how to deal with the Middle Eastern peoples. Lawrence died before his time or we might have actually averted some of these disasters.
Unfortunately, the link talking about the US helping to put the Taliban in power belongs to a leftist site; it is, however, the only site I could find that still had that information available. Years ago, when some weird history meme was going around, I dug that information up while figuring out how many conflicts and wars I'd seen and could remember in my lifetime.
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Some of the photographs in the Kintzer book are just appalling. At the refinery, the British had lawns, swimming pools, houses, air conditioning, theater, grocers, and a hospital. The Iranian people working the refinery had literally nothing. Their housing was sheets of corrugated scrap iron they'd hammered together and spackled over with mud. When, under pressure, the British oil company actually built shelters they held 4000 people per building and each family had only one blanket's width of space allotted them.
I'd prefer we mind our own business, but I think I'm in the minority there. I half expect a knock on my door --- not from Dee's agency --- sometime demanding explanation.
Heck, I've already said someone should sent a copy of the Kintzer book and TE Lawrence's writings to Obama!
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Thank ye for writin' this out. Be a damn good piece, ye.
~*~*~*Craimar*~*~*~
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One point - even under the geis of humanitarian aid - did you mean 'guise' here?
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I'm surprised I got away with so few errors considering how tired I was.
Thanks for reading, I appreciate it.
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And I just found out that my Twitter records and other Internet transactions are part of a mass subpoena by the US government because I happen to read the site WikiLeaks and follow it on Twitter.
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And now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go read the links you put in here.
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Unfortunately, the link talking about the US helping to put the Taliban in power belongs to a leftist site; it is, however, the only site I could find that still had that information available. Years ago, when some weird history meme was going around, I dug that information up while figuring out how many conflicts and wars I'd seen and could remember in my lifetime.
There are too many.
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