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Entry: D'Annunzio, Mussolini, and the Fate of Empires Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/dannunzio_mussolini_and_the_fate_of_empires#5406 Post contents: Taki's knowledge leaves a bit to be desired. Gilmour is absolutely right that Ethiopians defeated Italians in their first attempt to occupy that country. (There were two Ethiopian Wars) What Taki missed is the most outstanding event in that war. Ethiopians captured thousands ( by some accounts 16,000) of Italians and castrated many officers, among them the Mussolini's famous Marshal Graziani. So Italians went into Greece without "coglioni", expecting perhaps a "cakewalk" and got into a waspnest. In Balkans they don't respect the Marques of Queensbury rules. When their governments capitulate the people go on fighting in a nasty way. It is a belief that honor requires not to accept meekly submission to the invader. In this, their mentality is much closer to the Iraqis than to the West. Sent at: 2008 07 09