Channeling Lawrence
“Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than that you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not to win it for them.”
Bateman takes this currently stylish T.E. Lawrence quote and does the scholarly archaeology to put the charming artifact and Lawrence’s experience as a whole in their original context. Small Wars Journal.
Topics: Arabs, ancient mysteries
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 7:30 am on Monday, April 28, 2008
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