Napoleon Solves Iraq. Allegedly.

Journalists, politicians and other commentators on contemporary Iraq frequently plunder two main areas of history for their analogies: Vietnam if they want to be critical, World War 2 if they want to be positive. This article, whose author is not named, mines a different era when he cites one of Europe's most infamous sons: Napoleon. You might think the article has a good point, you might think it's a load of thinly connected nonsense, but it's a prime example of how people try to build convincing modern viewpoints around a historical subject.