Condoleeza Robespierre

From America the Virtuous, by Claes G. Ryn:

“Maximilien Robespierre (1758-1794) was a leading Jacobin ideologue and orator. He became a central figure in the Revolution and leader of France. For him, France and humanity faced a clear-cut alternative. The choice was between virtue, freedom, and popular rule, which was the cause of the Jacobins, and evil and oppression . . .”

“The new Jacobism [in the U.S.] is indistinguishable from democratism, the belief that democracy is the ultimate form of government and should be installed in all the societies of the world. The new Jacobinism is the main ideological and political force behind present efforts [by the Bush administration] to turn democracy into a worldwide moral crusade.”

Then there’s this, from the February 10, 2005 issue of USA Today, quoting Condoleeza Rice, appearing before the French National assembly this week saying:

“Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite!”

That, of course, was the battle cry of the eighteenth-century French Jocobins, led by Robespierre. Rice was urging the French to re-join the Bush administration’s crusade for perpetual global warfare in the name of “democracy.”

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8:22 am on February 11, 2005