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Some See Parallels In Algeria, Iraq Wars
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First the Pentagon plugged the movie, now President Bush is
reading the book.
The subject is Algeria's war of independence against France, in
which a Western power struggled with an insurgency and international
opposition.
Some see disturbing parallels between Algeria in 1957 and Iraq in
2007. Others say that they are different, but that there are lessons
to be learned from the war that hastened the end of France's empire.
Bush says he is reading "A Savage War of Peace," British
historian Alistair Horne's celebrated 1977 account of the war. And
shortly after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, the ...
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