Sykes, Picot made the modern Middle East in the image of the Great Britain & France.

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, more amibitious, wants to make the world in the image of the Caliphate

Sir Martin Sykes & Francois Georges-Picot

Sykes' & Picot's West Asia cartographic renderings carved up the Middle East among Russia/USSR, France and United Kingdom.

"I should like to draw a line from the e in Acre to the last k in Kirkuk." Sir Mark Sykes, 1915.

French (blue), British (red) and Russian (green) zones influence and control established by the Sykes–Picot Agreement.

Does Near East tinderbox predate Sir Mark Sykes, Francois Georges-Picot, and the Asia Minor Agreement ?

The Triple Entente (Russia, France, and Great Britain) planned their respective spheres of influence, between 1915 and 1916, in anticipation of their prevailing in World War 1.

Based on "Sykes Picot and Remodelling the Middle East." published earlier.
Every American President have failed America & the Middle East especially the Bush family, Bill Clinton & the sultan of swing.

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