Burke has been dead more than two hundred years, but he can still drive radicals to distraction with his simple wisdom. He had the annoying habit of being right about everything. He foresaw American greatness and supported the Americans in their grievances against his own king, George III. He warned Parliament that oppression would drive the Yanks to revolution and begged them to make peace when the revolution came. But when the French rose up, he predicted early on that terror would follow.
