The familiar adjectives of Lawrence of Arabia

There’s a scene early-on in the movie “Lawrence of Arabia” where T.E. Lawrence (Peter O’Toole) takes a rhetorical shot at his soon-to-be ally Sherif Ali (Omar Sharif) after Ali murders Lawrence’s Hazimi guide for drinking from one of Sherif Ali’s wells.

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And the power of O’Toole’s speech to Sharif, chastising him for the killing, “Sherif Ali, so long as the Arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people, greedy, barbarous, and cruel as you are,” hasn’t diminished in the 60-plus years since Robert Bolt and Michael Wilson wrote the script.

I mean, Silly? Greedy? Barbarous? Cruel? Remind you of anyone?

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Just think, in seven months Trump has transformed the once-great United States into, “a little people, a silly people, greedy, barbarous, and cruel.”

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