On Nov 28, 2006, at 4:49 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> You make it sound like Khomeini & Co. killed because they were
> theocrats, and they wouldn't have if they had subscribed to a
> different ideology. Given the history of modern revolutions and
> national liberations based on diverse ideologies, from bourgeois to
> socialist, I very much doubt that.
No, not because they were theocrats, but because they were brutal authoritarians. It doesn't excuse much to say, "The other guys did it too!"