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If you want to understand what the United States is up against in the Middle East, watch “Blood and Oil.” The primary reason U.S. foreign policy since 9/11 has been wholly ineffective is the administration’s ignorance of history and other cultures. The “war on terror” has repeatedly been likened to World War Two and the Cold War — analogies that don’t hold up. However, the real antecedents lie in World War One. In the West’s last gasp of colonialism, Britain and France apportioned this region between themselves, creating the artifice we now call the Middle East. Since that time, Arabs (and Persians) have chaffed under this unwanted arrangement. Much of the volatility in that region today has grown directly out of the accords made during and immediately after World War One.
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Marty Callaghan is among the first to provide a much overdue perspective of the real historical forces we’re dealing with today. “Blood and Oil” is a good primer on the interactions of the Western powers with the Arabs and Ottoman Turks during the war and the long-term ramifications of these actions. Until American policy makers understand these historical dynamics, we will be doomed to continued inept foreign policy — like going on a roadtrip and using the wrong map.
Other resources I would recommend:
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- PBS’s “The Road to 9/11″: provides an overview of the political forces that have shaped the Middle East during the 20th century
- PBS’s “Lawrence of Arabia: The Battle for the Arab World”: recounts T.E. Lawrence’s work as Britain’s pointman in cultivating Arab help in World War I in exchange for promises of Arab independence
- Jonathan Lewis’ “The First World War — The Complete Series”: superbly made documentary series on all facets of WWI, including one episode on “Jihad”
- World War I: The “Great War”: a college-level course taught by Prof Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius, available on DVD through The Teaching Company
“Blood and Oil” reveals the energy politics that guided the dismantling of the Ottoman Empire in the Middle East and Caucasus. The film, perhaps controversially, uncovers how Russia, Great Britain and France exploited ethnic and religious differences to fuel revolts against the Ottoman Empire, so that the West could dominate certain petroleum-rich areas, from Baku in Azerbaijan to Mosul and Kirkuk in Iraq. One track followed very closely in the film is that of the Russians (from the east) and French (from the south) instigating the Armenian Revolt, 1885-1920, that killed hundreds of thousands of Muslims, mostly Kurds, in eastern Anatolia and the Caucasus, the Ottoman response to which brought terrible suffering upon the Armenians. The film also delves into the British-engineered Arab revolts from the Sinai, to Palestine, to Baghdad. “Blood and Oil” draws acute parallels between the British invasion of the Middle East in WWI and the present US occupation of Iraq, both of which seemed designed to redraw the region’s borders under the guise of self-determination and human rights, but of course in line with energy objectives of the West. The ethnic and religious feuds of one hundred years ago still haunt the region today, raising the question whether the War to End All Wars actually created a peace to end all peace, as David Fromkin argues in the documentary.
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