Tea at Trianon: It just gets worse and worse...

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Monday, June 18, 2007

It just gets worse and worse...

...Everyday. I was afraid that this would happen. My husband and I both predicted that this would happen if we invaded Iraq. I wish we had been wrong. I wish all the people who claimed that we would bring Christianity as well as democracy to Iraq had been right. But it looks like all we brought was rape, murder, and Planned Parenthood. What the Christians are now suffering there defeats description. (Via the NOR) Share

7 comments:

Michelle Therese said...: Planned Satanhood is in Iraq????; June 18, 2007 at 11:37:00 AM EDT
Anonymous said...: Lord have mercy.; June 18, 2007 at 12:01:00 PM EDT
elena maria vidal said...: Oh, yes, they set up shop practically on the day of the invasion. And I think that abortion was against the law in Iraq before we got there.; June 18, 2007 at 12:02:00 PM EDT
Anonymous said...: It doesn't help matters that the Sunni and Shiite Muslisms are fighting each other.; June 18, 2007 at 12:51:00 PM EDT
elena maria vidal said...: That's for sure. And that was sadly to be expected.....; June 18, 2007 at 1:04:00 PM EDT
Terry Nelson said...: Thanks for posting this - it is almost unbelievable that this is not picked up by major news agencies. It substantiates the Vatican's earliest opposition to the war.

The incredible arrogance of the U.S. to attempt to impose our brand of democracy upon every nation is incomprehensible to me.; June 18, 2007 at 1:20:00 PM EDT
elena maria vidal said...: It is incomprehensible indeed. All one has to do is take one undergrad course of Middle East history to predict such a debacle. You would have thought all of those Ivy League graduates in the State Department would have known better.; June 18, 2007 at 1:33:00 PM EDT