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To: Dayuhan who wrote (121047)	12/12/2003 12:09:52 PM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 281500

I wonder, what is your opinion of the influence of the American Revolution on the French Revolution, especially considering that Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson were idolized even by the nobility, and considering that Louis XVI was progressive in his leaning, and did not object much to the idea of moving in the direction British constitutionalism? Or granting that there were local reasons to rebel against the Kuomingtang, in the face of corruption, do you think it made a difference that Communism became the ideology of the opposition, and that Moscow helped out? Do you think that external factors are always a matter of indifference to the way that local problems and conflicts play out? Do you think that it didn't matter that those with militant temperaments converged on Afghanistan, and that the leadership of most radical Islamic movements is currently composed of veterans of that conflict?