Churchill's Folly: How Winston Churchill Created Modern Iraq By .9780786715572

Churchill's FollyHow Winston Churchill Created Modern Iraq\nAuthor(s): Christopher Catherwood\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers Inc, United States\nImprint: Carroll & Graf Publishers Inc\nISBN-13: 9780786715572, 978-0786715572\nSynopsis\nAs Britain's colonial secretary in the 1920s, Winston Churchill made a mistake with calamitous consequences and unseen repercussions extending into the twenty-first century. Christopher Catherwood, scholar and adviser to Tony Blair's government, examines Churchill's creation of the artificial monarchy of Iraq after World War One, forcing together unfriendly peoples,Sunni Muslim Kurds and Arabs, and Shiite Muslims,under a single ruler. Defying a global wave of nationalistic sentiment and the desire of subjugated peoples to rule themselves, Churchill put together the broken pieces of the Ottoman Empire and unwittingly created a Middle Eastern powder keg. Inducing Arabs under the thumb of the Ottoman Turks to rebel against.