Friday, October 07, 2005

"Armed resistance instinctively produces in an imperial power an unwillingness to capitulate to violence; yet capitulation happened all over the Middle East between the end of 1920 and the fall of the Lloyd George government at the end of 1922." Elizabeth Monroe, Britain's Moment in the Middle East, 1914-1956 (Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1963), p. 67.