General Murray:
I may as well tell you, it's my considered opinion and that of my staff that any time spent on the Bedouin will be time wasted.They're a nation of sheep-stealers.
Mr. Dryden:
They did attack Medina.
General Murray:
And the Turks made mincemeat of them.
Mr. Dryden:
We don't know that.
General Murray:
We know that they didn't take it. A storm in a teacup, a sideshow. If you want my own opinion, this whole theatre of operations is a sideshow. The real war's being fought against Germans, not Turks. And not here, but on the Western front in the trenches. Your Bedouin Army, or whatever it calls itself would be a sideshow of a sideshow.
Mr. Dryden:
Big things have small beginnings, sir.
General Murray:
Does the Arab Bureau want a "big thing" in Arabia? If we get them to rise against the Turks, does the Bureau think they'll sit down quietly under us when this war's over?
Mr. Dryden:
The Arab Bureau thinks the job of the moment, sir, is to win the war.
General Murray:
Don't tell me my duty, Mr. Dryden!
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