Senior commanders in Kabul said they didn't want a repeat of the 2004 invasion of Fallujah, Iraq, an operation that gutted the city, making for a propaganda victory for insurgents, even though U.S. forces won the battle.
More than 200 years later, a unit of American Marines in Iraq's Sunni stronghold of Fallujah attempted to follow his example in 2004, growing mustaches in an attempt to help them win local sympathies.