In Monty Python’s classic comedy Life of Brian, one of the many bickering revolutionary groups, the Campaign for a Free Galilee – or was it the People’s Front of Judea? – was plotting revenge against the Romans.
One of them broke into a song: The Romans are all b*******,/they have bled us ’till we’re white,/they’ve taken everything we’ve got/as if it was their right,/and we’ve got nothing in return/though they make so much fuss./ What have the Romans ever done for us?
For all their brutalities,...