http://crdaily.com/2009/09/23/history-lesson/ The online voice of the Carolina Review Tue, 22 May 2012 02:59:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://crdaily.com/2009/09/23/history-lesson/#comment-1731 Thu, 24 Sep 2009 03:50:24 +0000 http://crdaily.com/?p=2923#comment-1731 Lawrence of Arabia is playing this weekend at the Carolina Theater. You might learn more about middle east history from it than Fleming's ramblings. Oh and it has Obi Wan Kenobi in it.

]]> http://crdaily.com/2009/09/23/history-lesson/#comment-1730 Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:08:14 +0000 http://crdaily.com/?p=2923#comment-1730 Well said, Chris.

]]> http://crdaily.com/2009/09/23/history-lesson/#comment-1729 Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:48:28 +0000 http://crdaily.com/?p=2923#comment-1729 I agree that was a pretty weak column. It's difficult to sum up the history of western imperialism in Iraq in just a few paragraphs, and he wastes a lot of time saying very little — he doesn't even mention the US role as a major backer of Saddam Hussein and the Ba'ath Party from the 1963 coup right up to 1991.

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