Bush: In the footsteps of Napoleon
Asia Times
by Juan Cole
08/25/07
French Egypt and American Iraq can be considered bookends on the history of modern imperialism in the Middle East. The Bush administration’s already failed version of the conquest of Iraq is, of course, on everyone’s mind; while the French conquest of Egypt, now more than two centuries past, is all too little remembered, despite having been led by Napoleon Bonaparte, whose career has otherwise hardly languished in obscurity. There are many eerily familiar resonances between the two misadventures, not least among them that both began with supreme arrogance and ended as fiascoes...
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IH25Ak03.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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Napoleon's Egypt and Bush's Iraq
Reflections On The History of Western Attacks on the Mideast
Video
Juan Cole discusses his new book, Napoleon's Egypt: Invading the Middle East and the relevance and lessons of Napoleon's expedition in Egypt to the current American occupation of Iraq.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18265.htm
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Napoleon
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=imperialism
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Juan+Cole
by Juan Cole
08/25/07
French Egypt and American Iraq can be considered bookends on the history of modern imperialism in the Middle East. The Bush administration’s already failed version of the conquest of Iraq is, of course, on everyone’s mind; while the French conquest of Egypt, now more than two centuries past, is all too little remembered, despite having been led by Napoleon Bonaparte, whose career has otherwise hardly languished in obscurity. There are many eerily familiar resonances between the two misadventures, not least among them that both began with supreme arrogance and ended as fiascoes...
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IH25Ak03.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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Napoleon's Egypt and Bush's Iraq
Reflections On The History of Western Attacks on the Mideast
Video
Juan Cole discusses his new book, Napoleon's Egypt: Invading the Middle East and the relevance and lessons of Napoleon's expedition in Egypt to the current American occupation of Iraq.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18265.htm
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Napoleon
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=imperialism
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Juan+Cole
rudkla - 28. Aug, 11:49
