wbreese91
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I have answered your question but you have not told me, would you do the Vietnam and Iraq wars all over again considering Johnson, Nixon and Bush are bigger mass murderers than Robespierre?
I enjoy your interest in history and your focus on France but could you tell about all the people who died at the hands of the US gouvernment, perhaps you could start with the Native Americans?
Yeah, why don't we just skate around the point? Robespierre was a nutjob. We all know it. The French Revolution was an abject failure. The people would have been better off witht he monarchs. Yeah they might be hungry, but thousands of them would have been alive. Those that would have starved under the monarchs, still starved when Robespierre and his ilk took over. Robespierre deserved what he got...the guillotine.
As for your comparisons, care to speculate how many people would have died if Robespierre had access to machine guns?
BTW, fighting valid wars against an enemy and having collateral damage (Bush and Vietnam Presidents) is different from ignighting a campaign of violence against your own citizens.
There is really no excuse for our treatment of the Indians, but they at least weren't our citizens unlike the targets of Robespierre's Great Terror.