Matt Midboe updated his status.

Got WWI on the mind. Thinking about Sir Tatton Benvenuto Mark Sykes, 6th Baronet of Sledmere. He is the Sykes of the infamous Sykes-Picot agreement. As Scott Anderson, author of Lawrence in Arabia, put it “Few people in history have so heedlessly caused so much tragedy.” Failures of the magnitude of Sykes-Picot remind me that today’s failures are small in the big picture.