if Italian soldiers made an accommodation with the locals and the french didn't, who is going to be better remembered by the locals? People who have found a way of co-existing amiably with their neighbours or those who drop bombs on innocents. Please remember that the the Italians (Romans) have the most distinguished history in warfare and civilization and if they have discovered a new dynamic in living which does not involve killing others we should follow, as we did in the past, to achieve our present liberal western civilisation. Human progress has been about a progression to courts of justice, geneva convention, nuclear disarmament rather than brute force to solve problems.