You write as if you had some bad experience with Italians. Maybe somewhere along the line, some Italian, stallion, stud-muffin "snatched" your girlfriend.
Although sexcond generation American, I'm half Italian. And no, I haven't had a girlfriend 'snatched' by a goombah.
I am, however, a student of history, and the mutation of Si vis pacem, para bellum, to "We need to build structures for peace', oe whatever that mamaluke said, led to the question. Capice?:)