Does anybody else see similarities between the movie "Black Hawk Down" and the 1960's British film "Zulu"? Both movies took place in Africa; in both cases, a small force from the most powerful country on Earth (Britain in the 1860's, the USA in the 1990's) did battle with an enemy force with inferior weapons, but vastly superior numbers. In both cases, the enemy was prepared to sacrifice their lives in enormous numbers in an attempt to wipe out a relatively small force. And in both cases, the "good guys" - well, the white guys - won. Sort of.

But the strangest thing is that both movies were based on true incidents, which occurred at oppposite ends of the same continent, over a century apart.

'Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose.'