Reader recommendation: Seven Pillars of Wisdom

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Along with his wartime diary, T.E. Lawrence offers a lot of analysis of Arab-Muslim character in Seven Pillars of Wisdom. I wonder how different things would have been if this had been required reading for the US State Department and military before our ventures in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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