The End is Near: History Remains a Discipline

Andrew Sullivan right twice on Wisconsin and concerning Libya. To make up for that unusual occurance -- which might otherwise be the first warning of the end time's nearness -- fortunately, he misreads Darton's essay, which doesn't explore the analogy between 1789 and 2011 but rather denies its validity and, indeed, cast very cold water on the notion of comparing revolution altogether.

Relatedly, the French have decided to intervene on the side of the forces of order:

Defense Conseil International (DCI), a French state-owed training company, has three crowd-control specialists acting as advisers to the Bahrain Army, chief executive Jean-Louis Rotrubin said at the IDEX trade show.
The advisers, drawn from the French Gendarmerie Nationale and elite GIGN special forces unit, are part of a program to train Bahrain special forces in non-lethal crowd control and the avoidance of the use of deadly force, he said. The program is just beginning.
DCI also has sent French personnel to Libya to train pilots and maintenance crews, aimed at bringing the Libyan Air Force’s Mirage F.1 fighters back into active service. Up until three years ago, an embargo prevented the delivery of spare parts, which meant Libya was unable to fly the Mirage F.1, Rotrubin said.

Why it's just like when France intervened in Spain and (what would become) Italy in 1821. Except, of course for nothing like that at all.