The Iraqi national borders are factually a culturally blind, capitalistically minded creation of 20th century Imperial England. After World War 1, during the fragmentation of the former Ottoman Empire, the League of Nations granted England the land currently known as Iraq. With quixotic visions of the Garden of Eden sprawled out through their minds, the English pictured a time when their Indian colonists would grow enough food for the entire British Empire, cultivated on the fertile shores of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.

Try posting summaries, this forum is for discussion and debate.
Establish yourself as a posting member first, or I'll be forced to start deleting your posts.

You can spot a self-important 20-year-old, a mile away.

-culturally blind
-capitalistically minded
-imperial
-fragmentation
-quixotic vision
-Indian colonists

I remember when I first learned these words and concepts.....it made me the smartest person in town  !

Just like we remember our first beer......

Never mind that as American conservatives, we actually know that the basics of what this kid says are TRUE.

We just don't think we're the first to discover it lol....and we don't blame the tea party or today's church for it.

Stupid is as stupid posts.

What?

Quote from: pgresearch on August 14, 2014, 07:02:36 PM
The Iraqi national borders are factually a culturally blind, capitalistically minded creation of 20th century Imperial England. After World War 1, during the fragmentation of the former Ottoman Empire, the League of Nations granted England the land currently known as Iraq. With quixotic visions of the Garden of Eden sprawled out through their minds, the English pictured a time when their Indian colonists would grow enough food for the entire British Empire, cultivated on the fertile shores of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.

Curious premise w/which I disagree. Food was irrelevant yet oil was paramount.
For Britain, the Royal Navy was the key to their Empire and by 1912 it was
powered by oil not coal; so she aggressively sought post-war
mandates and protectorates in both Iran and Iraq.