We started having rows, and one morning he showed me a revolver with three bullets. 'One for you,' he said, 'one for me and one for the baby.' I decided he had pushed me around for the last time."

- TIME MAGAZINE AUGUST 13, 1956

In the actual magazine they have a photograph of Helen Subbagh and her son. Underneath is the caption "Bullets for the whole family"

I linked to this to show one example of the total dysfunction of Arab culture long before the US ever arrived in Iraq, when Bush was still playing tiddly winks.

And here's another to help educate folks on the history of the region

The Uncontrollable Genie

Note the contributions of Belgrave's wife to Bahrein. Some here would say she had no right to try and impose western ideals of human rights and education on a sovereign state. To these folks I say hogwash. The online version omits the picture of the Sheik of Bahrein and trusted adviser Belgrave.

I'm going to start posting these things from time to time and putting them out there. TIME has put most of their old content online but to find stuff one really has to own an archive of all TIME magazines oneself. Their archives are not user-friendly...they merely exist in totality. When one has specific key words it helps narrow it down.

Americans, and most people of the modern world, have an extreme deficit of historic knowledge of these regions and can't hope of understanding what goes on today without an understanding of what has gone on before.