No it's not. If we'd actually, you know, declare war on a country that would be a different story. This was a UN police action that spiraled horribly out of control & has frankly, gone on way longer than it should have.
I don't think the UN has an active police mission in iraq. It never approved of the use of force in the first place.
So was I. No one really expected that result (not even the initiators of the initiative).
Oh and you are of course right that we have expirienced similar tendencies before. After the second world war the largest group of immigrants to switzerland were the italians. Today they are pretty well respected and integrated. At the time however the xenophobia peaked in an initative from James Schwarzenbach which wanted to limit foreign workers in Switzerland to 10%. In the year 2000 there was again such an initiative to limit it to 18%. Both of these initiatives were turned down in a public vote.
When comenting on the problems of integration Max Frisch said (freely translated) "We wanted workers, but human beings were arriving".
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