Reply #146: Both Jefferson and Paine denounced the French Revolution... [View All]

[rasputin1952]

as soon as they got word of the Reign of Terror. Initially, the FR was about freedom and equality...it turned quite quickly into something quite nasty. I shudder to think of this nation if it had taken the route of the FR.

One of the reasons we didn't intervene, was because we too weak at that point, another was distance...one that was not, was that the French were our allies during the latter part of the Revolution. The vast majority of Americans were appalled that the French too the route they did.

Essentially...this was a bad comparison.