by Paul Craig Roberts

AntiWar.Com

01/25/05

The Jacobins saw themselves as virtuous champions of universalist principles that required them to impose 'liberty, equality, fraternity' not merely on France by a reign of terror, but also on the rest of Europe by force of arms.

Unlike America's Founding Fathers, who exhorted their countrymen to cultivate their own garden, Jacobins were not content with revolutionizing France. They were driven to revolutionize the world.

President Bush's second inaugural speech is Jacobin to the core. It stands outside the American tradition...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp