Arab Pride Quotes
Patton was leading troops in north Africa in world war two. They came into much contact with the Arabs and Patton thought that his officers should know more about them. He wrote this memo.
The neo-conservative expectation of the American invasion of Iraq almost a century later was essentially the same, and the false expectation led to the same kind of failure as the George W. Bush debacle of the early 21st century.
Bath parties developed in several Arab countries: In Iraq and Syria they actually came to power. However, they were soon at each other’s throats and never became the unifying force in the Arab world that they had hoped to become at their founding. The quotation turned out to be a hope and a dream but not a realistic assessment of reality.
