User blog comment:Thailog/Ep. 121 "Image" discussion/@comment-4754370-20120318020203/@comment-3465526-20120318040433

And while Queen Bee's claim might be "baseless", it is true that all the nations of northern Africa are inventions of the European powers after World war I. Before that the whole region was simply a solid band of the Ottoman Empire, ruled by local rulers who routinely murdered each other while generally pretending allegiance to Constantinople.