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I was stationed in Germany and Italy during my military service so I do not know if the following is true or not but it seems to be on point...

No disrespect to anyone from Greece intended...

There was a story that I heard about a GI getting into an accident near Hellinikon... Though he was not at fault because his driving was not the approximate cause of the accident...He was at fault however in the eyes of the other other party and several locals because he was there. In other words, if American servicemen were not in Greece, the accident would never have happened.

That attitude seems to be rampant in Iraq...If we were not there... I hear from old friends that say that they feel we took them out of the frying pan and tossed them into the fire.... There is also an attitude that they resent our servicemen's presence because as a very proud people (cradle of civilization and all....) they do not like being indebted... It would be like having to see the banker that helped approved the loan for your house... You feel indebted but after a while, you start to resent his presence because he serves as a reminder of what you could not do for yourself....

I guess it is an updated and more hostile version of that "Overpaid, oversexed, and over here!!!" thinking....