re: unbelievable!!! didnt take them long....
Judging by the mentality, Iraq may end up closer in history to ancient Rome and Germania than Nth Korea.
Read up on Varus and the massacre of the 3 roman legions in Teutoburg forest.
Rome went to *civilise" the barbarian Germanic hordes, but were in turn betrayed and slaughtered.
The Romans never went back for the *civilising * process and instead left them to their own devices.
While the rest of the known world was romanised, modernised and civilised, the Germanic tribes continued to swing from branches and collect trophy heads.
Once the Romans left the Germans turned on each other
It took them more than a millenia to catch up with the other beneficiaries of Pax Romana. .i think the looney muslims who feel the need to beat their chests, whip themselves with chains and crawl on their hands and knees to their holy shrines may need an extra millennia on that again if they spurn Pax Americana..
