Nihilism in the Middle East: from Colonel Lawrence to Mohammed Atta.(T.E. Lawrence)(Critical Essay)

From: Quadrant | Date: December 1, 2001| Author: | Copyright information

T.E. LAWRENCE'S account of the way his Arab cutthroats would beat the Turks makes eerie reading today. He asked himself how a handful of fierce zealots, whose main activities had been pilfering and brigandage, could possibly bring the Ottoman Empire to its knees. Obviously not by punching toe to toe with Turkish artillery.

"But suppose" (he writes in The Seven Pillars of Wisdom) "suppose we were an influence, an idea, a thing invulnerable, intangible, without front or back, drifting about like a gas?" Conventional armies were large and immobile, and conventional generals ...

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