aCon describes himself as a classical liberal and believes he was born in the wrong age. He is a proponent of Great Man Theory and a Napoleon admirer. I have a certain sympathy for him. I read a great scifi story years ago, wish I could remember the author. It is a deathbed scene of a French colonel, on Corsica, reliving frustratedly the disasters of 1757 in India, when his stupid generals would not listen to his tactics, and the defeat in Canada in 1763, ditto. His loving ineffectual wife, stern mother and hapless brothers (afraid of the future without him) try to comfort him. But of course they cannot, it is Napoleon, born too soon.