I'm reading Arrian on The Campaigns of Alexander, and it seems like welcoming the conqueror was a good idea back then. If you surrendede, Alexander would leave your city pretty much unscathed, let you keep your own laws. If you resisted, after the usual massacres and rapine, he'd kill the men and sell the women and children into slavery. jks
Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:Brian O. Sheppard wrote:
>Can anyone doubt that if, somehow, Saddam's forces had won, the same
>Iraqis would be waving Iraqi flags, cheering, presenting flowers for
>the Ba'ath Loyalist troops, etc.? What sentiment is "real," and what is
>simply the result of a people so demoralized and oppressed that they have
>simply become slavishly worshipful of power?
Is it that, or just a survival tactic? If a hundred thousand heavily armed soldiers blow into your homeland, isn't it a good idea to smile and wave?
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