"There's a streak of sadism that comes through loud and clear in any Lawrence biography, and it's most noticeable here in the accounts of Lawrence recklessly blowing up trains and using unnecessarily large quantities of explosions. As one of his British companions put it: "We could indulge in a love of destruction which had lain latent in us since we were small boys."
"But perhaps the most shocking quote in the book comes from Lawrence's friend and ally, Feisal ibn Hussein, who became the king of Iraq in 1921.
"Shortly before he died in 1933, he claimed that there is "no Iraqi people but unimaginable masses of human beings, devoid of any patriotic idea, imbued with religious traditions and absurdities connected by no common tie, giving ear to evil, prone to anarchy and perpetually ready to rise against any government whatever."
Cool. We've been fucked with the pillars of wisdom. IOZ will be soooo happy.
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