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> > On May 2, 2007, at 10:28 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
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> > > The Iranians are the Jacobins of the Middle East.
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> > Which part? Their opposition to the Church, or their love of terror?
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>The greatest modern historians of the French Revolution, from Albert
>Mathiez, Georges Lefebvre, George Rudé, to Albert Soboul, all on the
>Left, thought well of Maximilien Robespierre*
Before I take the time to read the rest of this long reply and follow the asterisks and all, I thought I'd ask if an answer to the question you're responding to is in there somewhere.