Bush and Napoleon

BUSH AND NAPOLEON

By Richard Bulliet Published: August 2, 2007


What does George W. Bush share with Napoleon Bonaparte? Perhaps only one thing. Both men launched spectacular attacks on Arab countries, won stunning initial victories, and then became bogged down in a hopeless military occupations.

If Bush has the wisdom to do what Napoleon did, he may yet be remembered as a leader of historic stature.

All he has to do is cut and run.

In March 1798, Napoleon invaded Egypt in pursuit of a grandiose dream. He wanted to conquer the Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire and, in alliance with Iran, march on India. Britain's greatest fear was losing access to this linchpin of imperial might and source of the money that funded its opposition to revolutionary France.

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Napoleon could ride a horse. Truman had a daughter that could play the piano and sing. History is aware of those qualities.

the reason Bush will not leave Iraq is oil, the same reason he invaded in the first place. I believe if Bush could take their oil and bring it home with the troops, he would do it in a heart beat, whether Iraq descended in to even more chaos or not.