Andrew, Your allusion to Barbarossa is flawed. When the Germans rolled into the Soviet Union, there were plenty of people that welcomed them as liberators, not the least of which were the Ukranians. Had the Germans been less racist and didn't look at the Ukranians and other ethnicities in the Soviet Union (which is FAR MORE than just Russians) as being untermensch they would have been able to push to the Urals and defeated Stalin. With Ukranian manpower, food, and industry to support them, it might very well have happened. Even in 1944, when the Germans raised a Waffen-grenadier division for Urkanians, they needed only 15,000 volunteers; they got some 200,000. Even if after 3 years of occupation and brutality Ukranians were willing to do this, I think says a lot about Stalin's regime.
Your allusion, therefore, would work only if the US managed to alienate the only really friendly faction (the Kurds) that are currently in Iraq. So far that hasn't happened AFAIK. Damon. ===== ------------------------------------------------------------ Damon Agretto [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum." http://www.geocities.com/garrand.geo/index.html Now Building: ------------------------------------------------------------ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business $15K Web Design Giveaway http://promotions.yahoo.com/design_giveaway/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
