Posted on 02/27/2011 8:00:50 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Americans love a revolution. Their own great nation having been founded by a revolutionary declaration and forged by a revolutionary war, they instinctively side with revolutionaries in other lands, no matter how different their circumstances, no matter how disastrous the outcomes. This chronic reluctance to learn from history could carry a very heavy price tag if the revolutionary wave currently sweeping across North Africa and the Middle East breaks with the same shattering impact as most revolutionary waves.
Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson hailed the French Revolution. “The French have served an apprenticeship to Liberty in this country,” wrote the former, “and now … they have set up for themselves.” Jefferson even defended the Jacobins, architects of the bloody Reign of Terror. “The liberty of the whole earth was depending on the issue of the contest,” he wrote in 1793, “and was ever such a prize won with so little innocent blood? … Rather than [the revolution] should have failed, I would have seen half the earth desolated.”
In Ten Days That Shook the World, the journalist John Reed was equally enthusiastic about the Russian Revolution of 1917, a book for which Lenin himself (“great Lenin” to Reed) wrote an enthusiastic preface. Reed’s counterpart in China’s communist revolution was Edgar Snow, whose characterization of Mao—“He had the simplicity and naturalness of the Chinese peasant, with a lively sense of humor and a love of rustic laughter”—today freezes the blood.....
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“Why are Americans cheering on the Arab revolutionary wave? “
Because they think that we can have a revolution here, as well.
The only revolution that the TPTB will permit will be a commie one.
Time will tell which is right.
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The Nazis used their SA thugs to intimidate their opposition. The Nazis actually lost ground in the 32 elections.
Then cynically, Von Pappen, used Hitler, as a bargaining chip against his arch-rivalry Von Schleicher, thinking Hitler could be controlled, and that is how Hitler became Chancellor. From their the Nazis simply thugged their way to power.
a. In at least some cases, the enemy of our enemy is our friend.
b. Time, energy and treasure spent in internal conflict is time, energy and treasure not being spent on attacking us.
Hitchens isn't the only one. Jefferson's sympathies are routinely ignored by Hamilton-hating neo-Confederate "palaeos" who otherwise are quick to call the abolitionists "Jacobins."
They also approve of his radically de-centralized, agrarian, proto-Confederate ideas of the US Constitution. They also consider him a hero for opposing the Hamiltonian Bank of the United States (since banks cause Communsim, according to "palaeos").
Their great "hero of white chr*stian civilization" was also a radical deist who eviscerated his "bible" to rid it of all miracles. But never mind that, Alexander Hamilton was actually the bad guy.
Some people are so ignorant of history it's funny.
Yes, strange public affairs work, isn’t it. Sponsors of our media seem to have changed their choices in assets. My speculation: maybe efforts to keep freight fuel prices lower (imports, shipping, you know).
Well... as long as the majority vote to stick their head in the jaws of the caliphate then I suppose that is “democracy” of some sort.
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