here s another idea, let s figure out how this happened. how did we spend 20 years or trillions of dollars, thousands of american lives and end up with absolutely nothing but more humiliation? tribesmen shooting at us with our guns as we run away? that s the definition of disaster. so rather than just complain about it, let s hold somebody accountable for it. for once. they are still employed there. why is that. the pentagon was of poorest to build a functional national army in afghanistan to protect the government, but they didn t do that. so people didn t do their jobs and lied about not doing their jobs, but they are still wearing the uniform of our country? why is that? good question. for the first time in a long time, may we can hold our own leaders to account for theou calamities that have caused. that s not a matter of justice, though it definitely is that. it s the only way to prevent
and lawrence without any reference back to the british military authorities in cairo. he goes off everybody s radar and sets off with a commando force on a 600-mile march and disappears into the desert. days and days and days of waterless desert with the possibility that the camels will begin to die before they get to the opposite side. and of course if the camels die, then everybody else dies. nothing to relieve the eye. men go mad. and at different times on the journey, i think lawrence thought he might be going mad. they hit sandstorms. people die along the way. lawrence, at normal times, weighed about 140 pounds. he was down to 90 pounds by the end of this trip. but the focus is on persuading the local tribesmen
for them. so they surrendered. the battle of aqaba proved the importance of an alliance with the local tribesmen. they knew the lay of the land, and they were fighters. these were tribesmen who survived by protecting what was theirs in the desert. and it would not have been successful had faisal not been part of it. aqaba is the turning point because it puts the arabs in a position where they can spread the revolt into the core regions of the middle east. at this point, lawrence sees himself as no longer fighting for the british. he s fighting for the arabs. but no one had heard a word from him in over two months. he was listed as missing and maybe even presumed dead. so lawrence realized he had to deliver the news about the fall
over a thousand years have passed since the time of herod. and by 1187 a.d., the world is a very different place. the jewish people have been driven from jerusalem and now live in exile across europe and africa as two new monotheistic religions dominate the middle east. christianity has its beginnings as the breakaway movement within judaism. this main central figure is a jew, jesus. and then there becomes a religion all its own because jesus is the person who begins to talk about different ways of practicing the faith. islam started in 610 of the common era when the prophet muhammad essentially emerged in mecca, telling his tribesmen that he is a prophet sent from god.