Re: Re: A Day When Mahdi Army Showed Its Other Side
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!”