Does Michael Walzer Really Believe the American Revolution Was Illegitimate?

I knew that Nino Scalia thinks the American Revolution was illegitimate, sinful and blasphemous, first cousin to Satan's War Against Heaven.

But can it be true that Michael Walzer agrees with him?

Say it ain't so.

But let me turn the mike over to Russell Arben Fox, who cites:

In Medias Res: Thoughts on Kosovo, Mill, and Walzer: [In] Jeremy Waldron's review of Walzer's thought that I mentioned above... [Waldron] writes that "political community is the heart of Walzer's writing," and that he believes "communal integrity has a nonrelative claim upon us"; we morally and prudentially ought to, in short, allow all (or almost all) self-identifying communities the space to work out (and deepen, and thereby perhaps through an education in democracy extend) their own identities and claims. What others may see as a clear-cut issue of humanitarian justice (a state oppressing its ethnic minorities, a violence-prone secession movement gaining power), Walzer sees--at least in many cases--as more of the "traditional philosophical dislike for politics." Waldron adds:

Even in the absence of democracy, Walzer wants to hang on to the principle of self-determination. A political community "is self-determining even if its citizens struggle and fail to establish free institutions, but it has been deprived of self-determination if such institutions are established by an intrusive neighbor." The compromises that people make, the sacrifices they forgo, may trouble a philosopher.... But "I don't believe," says Walzer, "that the opposition of philosophers is a sufficient ground for military invasion"...

The point, of course, is that the victory of the West Atlantic Anglospheric secessionists in their 1775-1783 struggle to depart from the unitary Anglospheric United Kingdom was the work of... the FRENCH!!!! Does Walzer really want to commit himself to the slogan: "LAFAYETTE, GO HOME!!"?