Nice obfuscation, but you're missing my point and nearly caused me to do likewise in the rush to answer.
As earlier:
I can't off-hand think of any respectable group that has welcomed the foreign removal of a home-grown leader, except as an extremely short-term step to garnering their own power. The nearest I can come is the unpleasant supporters of the Shah of Iran, our replacement for ? Mossadeq (was he democratically elected??), and we know how and why THAT ended.
i.e., I don't think of Ustase or Lithuanian SS as respectable... and I also can't name, in recent history, respectable home-grown corps keen and able to fight on behalf of a foreign invader/occupier. Plus the USSR had puppets in Afghanistan, and Norway gave us the word Quisling... none of them are people I'd term patriots to their country.
Even in the example of Italy, the only Italians actually fighting Mussolini were Communists backed by Stalin, plus some Mafia. Maybe sincere patriots, but IMO their agenda was different. Not good guys, anyway.
Maybe Iraq is a unique new departure, the first of its kind, where the patriots fight for the invaders. Is that your argument? |
