This is not about being wrong or not resisting -- everybody can be wrong. The contemporary equivalent would be the Neo-Con intellectual who still today defends the invasion, who goes to Baghdad and sends back rosy reports of how healthy Capitalist markets are providing plentiful goods and well-paying jobs to all and the swift eradication of poverty in Liberal-Democratic Iraq, and who angrily dismiss all arguments that things are actually pretty crap by blaming the state of things on the existential and entirely justified need to fight Iran-funded insurgencies and the damn communist Kurds stealing the oil in the north.