(Alan Schwartz is a professor of law and management at Yale.) With 1 million lawyers in the US to just 25,000 in Japan, it appears that the oversupply leads to no hesitancy on their part to become immediate experts in Middle Eastern history. Perhaps lawyers should spend more time on practicing legal birth control - restricting their own numbers.
A single point which can be followed by hundreds of others is that Britain and France divided up the Arab world at the end of the First world Ward, and hand picked leaders. Britain transferred land ownership from Arab tribal members to tribal heads thereby uprooting hundreds of years of a carefully balanced society overnight so that the tribes would be easier to administer. Much of what is mentioned by Schwartz and Haven can be linked back to colonial acts such as these. My own ancestors came to this continent in 1620, grabbed land that was not there and were a part of the beginning of the rape and pillage of North America. I'm not terribly proud of that. I am listing my credentials to show that anyone can be irrelevant. William Bradford Ward BA in Middle Eastern History and Languages MA in Cultural Anthropology MPH in International Health DrPh in Public Health <<<< GETTING AT THE ROOTS OF ARAB POVERTY Alan Schwartz and Ew Haven >>>> Keith Hudson ___________________________________________________________________ Keith Hudson, Bath, England; e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________________________________________
