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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (11306)4/15/2009 10:09:39 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 103300
 
"There was a royal family over there for ages"

I don't know what you mean by "ages".

Prior to T.E. Lawrence, the Arabian Arabs were a disunited bunch of desert-dwellers, on the dusty end of the decaying Ottoman Empire, with a multitude of chieftans.

The Saudi Monarchy that the Brits essentially 'made' by supporting militarily (and entreating with for exclusive oil rights), we the Americans merely then co-opted the British role....