Don't tell me my duty, Mr. Dryden!
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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!
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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I'll tell you it's my considered opinion and that of my staff
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that time spent on the Bedouin will be time wasted
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They're a nation of sheep stealers
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They did attack Medina
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And the Turks made mincemeat of them
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We don't know that
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We know that they didn't take it A storm in a teacup a sideshow
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In my opinion this whole theater of operations is a sideshow
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The real war's being fought against Germans not Turks
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Not here but on the Western front in the trenches
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Your Bedouin Army or whatever it calls itself
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would be a sideshow of a sideshow
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Big things have small beginnings sir
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Does the Arab Bureau want a big thing in Arabia
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Does the bureau think they'll sit down under us when this war is over
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The bureau thinks the job of the moment sir is to win the war
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Don't tell me my duty Mr Dryden
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Movie Summary
The story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks.
