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The end of Sykes-Picot : Comments

By Marika Sosnowski, published 19/9/2013

As the Syrian civil war grinds on, violence flares in Lebanon and sectarian casualties in Iraq continue to mount, the very foundations upon which the modern Middle East is based are crumbling.

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I can see that Marika Sosnowski is of the "always blame the white guy" school of international relations. Arabs are killing Arabs all over the Middle East, and its all the white guys fault. Marika claims that this hostility is all because of the Sykes-Picot treaty where the Ottoman Empire was divided up into soon to be independent nation states.

Gee, I thought that lefties like Marika hated Imperialism, and one would have thought that she would give the western powers a kiss for driving out an imperial conqueror and creating nation states from colonial provinces. Marika claims that the Poms and the Frogs got it all wrong when they drew up the new map of the Middle East. What a load of crap. All of these countries are cursed with multiculturalism, with religious, tribal, racial, and clan loyalties all intermixed, and the only way the western powers could have created monocultural entities was to have 200 new "countries" instead of half a dozen. Maritza believes in multiculturalism but the Arabs sure don't.

The Saudis demanded that the new state of Saudi Arabia should include all of Syria and Iraq, based upon the fact that they roamed all over the damned place on their camels. The Poms told them to POQ. The Hashemites in Jordan demanded that the British toss the Saudi usurpers out of Mecca and put them into power. These characters could not agree on what to have for a halal breakfast, much less where their borders should be. Want to start a dozen wars? Ask the Arabs to define their own borders.

If the Arabs think that the Poms and Frogs got it wrong, well, they are supposed to be big boys now who can negotiate with each other on who owns what. But they can never do that. They will just keep on killing each other while Maritza reflexively blames the white guys.

It all comes down to the trendy lefty formulae, white guys are always to blame, minorities are never to blame. That sure looks like racism to me.
Posted by LEGO, Thursday, 19 September 2013 7:53:33 PM
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Rhian. Agree with your questioning the carve up resulting in 'nation states'. In my earlier post if mistakenly implied that Sykes-Pikot took account of the Gertrude Bell and T.E. Lawrence proposition that the area be subdivided according to Sunni/Shia/Kurd and other considerations. It would indeed be interesting to see the Wash up' resulting in a reconfiguration along the lines you suggest.
Posted by Prompete, Friday, 20 September 2013 9:44:44 PM
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Perhaps the Great Powers were more cunning than we thought.
Think of Yes Minister.

They must have known that Islam's objective is to control the world and
what better way to keep them at home than to set them all against themselves.

The Jews were a Godsend (pun intended) to really stir the pot.

Unfortunately their population expansion is such that they are now invading the rest of the world.
Posted by Bazz, Tuesday, 24 September 2013 5:00:20 PM
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