The Unraveling of Sykes-Picot

[Second Summer]

The thrice-promised land it has been called.

It is that land north of Mecca and Medina and south of Anatolia, between the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf.

In 1915 — that year of Gallipoli, which forced the resignation of First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill — Britain, to win Arab support for its war against the Ottoman Turks, committed, in the McMahon Agreement, to the independence of these lands under Arab rule.

He goes on to talk about the other two promises, how the Middle East map is likely to change due to wars, and that the US should stay out of it. An interesting read.

Full article: The Unraveling of Sykes-Picot (by Patrick J. Buchanan, published in antiwar.com, 28. May 2013)