Lawrence and the Arab Revolt

The documented history of lawrence's actions and motivations tells a very different story. A memo on the politics of mecca reveals a more duplicitous british calculus for supporting certain factions of the arab revolt. The arabs are even less stable than the turks, if properly handled, they would remain in a state of political mosaic. We hoped by the creation of a ring of client states, insisting on our patronage to turn the present and future flank of any foreign powers with designs on the three rivers.