The Quisling Factor ("Death to Karzai! Death to America!")?

Vidkun Quisling cooperated with the Nazis during the WW2 occupation in running his native Norway. He was subsequently executed and his name became synonymous with treason. Comparable figures similarly collaborated with the Nazis in a number of other occupied European countries -- and also earned the hatred of their fellow citizens:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vidkun_Quisling

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quisling

The lesson to be learned here is that collaborators come to be despised by their own people and are associated with the worst wrongs done by their occupiers. One hears reports today that uproar is in process in Afghanistan where Karzai, our ally and designated leader there, is being targeted by Afghanis with outrage for his cooperation with us in the face of yet another killing incident:

http://www.forbes.com/entrepreneurs/feeds/ap/2006/05/29/ap2778765.html

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/B9E0FAF2-B4D3-4A69-93FA-749FAC6CC520.htm

One also wonders what will happen to the U.S. backed government in Iraq post Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo with the current disclosure of the apparently brutal November massacre of civilians there by frightened and frustrated American troops?

Iraqis' Accounts Link Marines to the Mass Killing of
Civilians
By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr. and MONA MAHMOUD
The military's investigation into the role of U.S. marines
in the November killings may lead to charges including
murder.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/29/world/middleeast/29haditha.html?th&emc=th

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Most likely opponents to our occupations will link their own leaders cooperating with us to the worst happenings in those increasingly tormented nations. Needless to say politicians hoping to win the support of their people in the face of on-going occupation incidents will be walking a tight rope over an abyss -- the Quisling factor.

Machiavelli in The Prince warned long ago that occupying armies breed resistance -- insurgency or call it whatever one wishes.
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