CSPAN3 History Of The Freedmans Bank March 22, 2015
You come down the valleys of the tigris and euphrates. Mesopotamia did have some historical presence. There was a possibility, and i talk to people who know iraqi history better than i do, there was a possibility iraq could have developed as a reasonable country within those boundaries. But there were accidents in history. The good king died early. His son was a useless playboy who killed himself in a car accident. There was a boy who was not a good regent. That was a problem. You got a series of political movements in iraq. Then you had a series of military coups. Given a different history an...
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