:12:00
It's an intrigue, Dryden.
:12:02
I do not propose to let
an overweening, crass lieutenant...
:12:06
...thumb his nose at his commander
and get away with it.
:12:09
It doesn't sound as though
he'd be any great loss.
:12:13
Don't try that, Dryden.
There's a principle involved.
:12:16
There is, indeed.
:12:18
He's of no use here in Cairo.
:12:20
He might be in Arabia.
He knows his stuff, sir.
:12:23
Knows the books, you mean.
:12:25
I've already sent out
Colonel Brighton, who's a soldier.
:12:28
If Brighton thinks we should send
some arms, we will.
:12:33
Well, what more do you want?
:12:35
That there would be no question
of Lieutenant Lawrence...
:12:38
...giving military advice.
:12:40
By God, I should hope not.
:12:42
It's just that the Arab Bureau would
like its own man on the spot to....
:12:47
To what?
:12:48
To make our own appraisal
of the situation.
:12:50
I'll tell you, it's my considered
opinion and that of my staff...
:12:54
...that time spent on the Bedouin
will be time wasted.
:12:57
They're a nation of sheep-stealers.
:13:00
They did attack Medina.
:13:03
And the Turks made mincemeat of them.
:13:05
We don't know that.
:13:07
We know that they didn't take it.
A storm in a teacup, a sideshow.
:13:12
In my opinion, this whole theatre
of operations is a sideshow.
:13:16
The real war's being fought against
Germans, not Turks.
:13:19
Not here, but on
the Western front in the trenches.
:13:22
Your Bedouin Army,
or whatever it calls itself...
:13:25
...would be a sideshow of a sideshow.
:13:27
Big things have small beginnings, sir.
:13:31
Does the Arab Bureau
want a big thing in Arabia?
:13:34
Does the bureau think they'll sit down
under us when this war is over?
:13:39
The bureau thinks the job of
the moment, sir, is to win the war.
:13:44
Don't tell me my duty, Mr. Dryden.
:13:47
-Lawrence, sir.
-Send him in.
:13:51
Good morning, sir.
:13:53
Salute.
:13:56
If you're insubordinate,
I shall put you under arrest.
:13:59
-It's my manner.
-Your what?