I'm a big fan of Belmont, as you all know. But his Magnolias on the Euphrates series is really silly. There cannot be a similarity between our Civil War and Iraq or the Revolution and Iraq. Why? Religion, language, and culture. You better know the culture before you mess with post war settlements and things. Iraqis do not think like Southerners in the Civil War or Brits in the Revolution. We can take analogies way too far and this one is moonbeam stuff.