Thomas wrote:georgeob1 wrote:Robespierre, the guiding hand of the French "Terror", was the chief "progressive " of his day.
... and Thomas Jefferson greatly admired him for being it. I think when Lash called her side "the neo-super-bad-mean-scary-Jacobin-Christian party", she was merely being true to her ideological heritage.
Did Jefferson write anything in praise of Robspierre? That surprises me. In any case Jefferson was by far the least of the founding fathers of our nation. In my view he is vastly overrated hy historians generally of a liberal bent. His Presidency was largely a failure and in his own life he delivered far more contradictions to posterity than did Washington, Franklin, Madison, and Hamilton who were his superiors by very wide margins.
Robspierre is an appropriate model for the much vaunted Franch revolution - an event that produced only impractical theory, the Terror, Napoleon, and finally the Burbons again. Compared to ours it was a rather poor second act.
Lash was guilty of hyperbole. I don't by the appelations. The real true believers, those who know beyond doubt what is really good for us, are the shrill protagonists of liberal political correctitude. The amusing events in the sacred halls of Harvard where the the hapless Larry Sommers cannot apologize or recant abjectly enough to the harpies of of feminist dogma is a parody of rational behavior. Even the Inquisition accepted Gallileo's recantation at face value.
). I wholeheartedly agree, however, with your assessment of actual combat veterans' opinion of war. I happen to have some relevant experience and endorse the sentiment unreservedly.
