There’s a distinction between a revolution and a counterrevolution. It’s a recurrent mistake of the American media to conflate the 2. That’s as a result of the success of 1776—the 250th anniversary of which we have a good time this 12 months—predisposes us to sympathize with revolutions. I can consider no higher rationalization for the naivete of a lot liberal commentary on subsequent revolutions: France in 1789, Russia in 1917, China in 1949, Cuba in 1959, Nicaragua in 1979, Egypt in 2011 and, most related to immediately, Iran in 1979.
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