Den britiske general Michael Rose (der bl.a. ledede de britiske styrker i Bosnien i sin tid) har skrevet en bog, hvor han bl.a. sammenligner den irakiske modstandsbevægelses taktik mod de amerikanske styrker med George Washingtons taktik mod briterne, og udtaler sig endog særdeles klart om det rent moralske aspekt af at angribe en fremmed besættelsesmagt som den amerikanske i Irak:
Asked if he thought the insurgents were “right” to try to get the American forces out of Iraq, he said: “Yes I do.
“As Lord Chatham said, when he was speaking on the British presence in North America, he said ‘if I was an American, as I am an Englishman, as long as one Englishman remained on American native soil, I would never, never, never lay down my arms’.
“The Iraqi insurgents feel exactly the same way. I don’t excuse them for some of the terrible things they do, but I do understand why they are resisting the Americans.”
Via Lenin’s Tomb.