>Certainly there are resemblances. The Algerian war, launched by ferocious nationalists,
Почему "ferocious"? Как вообще надо понимать эту фразу? Кстати согласно "Истории Алжира. ХХ век" Ланда алжирское восстание вскоре поддержали и самые умеренные политики из числа арабов и берберов.
> many of whom had served as soldiers in the French Algerian regiments against Germany in the concluding years of the second world war, was as bitter and cruel as Iraq has become.
>As the Algerian war did, the Iraq war has spilt over into the homelands of the Western armies fighting it, leading to terrorism and atrocities on Western soil. It has also affected the politics of those homelands. It has also baffled, just as Algeria did, governments as to how to bring the war to a conclusion.
>advertisementAnd it has drawn into the conflict external forces, based on neighbouring Muslim countries that support the anti-Westerners and complicate efforts at solutions by favouring one party or another among the Muslim combatants.
>In addition, there is vast oil wealth, to intensify Western desire to achieve victory.
Кстати под многие из этих признаков можно и ВОВ подогнать. Тоже была начата брутальными националистами, тоже вызвала колоссальные трудности (сперва для СССР, потом для Германии), оборонявшаяся сторона также обладала значительными ресурсами.
>Fortunately there is also a lack of resemblances.
