You Say You Want a Revolution?

[jakpalmer]

By Lee Siegel, LA Times
January 17, 2005

You Say You Want a Revolution?

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As the History Channel's documentary, "The French Revolution" — airing tonight — vividly relates, the violent overthrow of Louis' top-heavy ancien regime was the mother, and the model, of all revolutions. No wonder President Bush and his Jacobins have such a bee in their bonnets about the French. The Bush administration tried to have a revolution in Iraq, but nobody came.

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So why does the Bush crowd keep insisting on making a revolution from the outside, without the complicity of the people on whose behalf it's being made, in a place that lacks the historical conditions for a successful transformation? It's simple. American conservatives have a bad case of revolution-envy.

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A funny little piece...


Edit: link corrected.

[ixion]

1. hey, your link is messed up... good read though

you're calling http:// twice.


http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-siegel17jan17,1,3001151.story?coll=la-news-comment-opinions


I've maintained through all this French bashing that we really shouldn't bash the people who helped us obtain our own freedom from occupation.

[jakpalmer]

2. You're quite right

Bashing people on the basis of their nationality is, IMHO, the sign of a weak mind.

But it looks like it's the least we could expect from right-wing morans.

PS: Link corrected, thank you.