"For by superior energies; more strict affiance in each other; faith more firm in their unhallowed principles, the bad have fairly earned a victory over the weak, the vacillating, inconsistent good."
--William Wordsworth
Were the promises and agreements made between the Arabs, French, and British during the First World War compatible?
The formation of the Middle East oft conjures up the image of Allied delegates huddled hawklike about a conference table littered with outdated maps, armed with pencils arbitrarily etching out the provisional boundaries of their post-war booty. A crude image, which depicts an era of imperialistic ambitions, where hungry, war-wrought nations were eager to reap the rewards of their victory. Darwinism was in vogue. Societies entrenched in the durable motif of the strong dominate the weak had found the perfect means to compensate the hefty costs of war. …
