On 1/30/2011 5:46 PM, Darren New wrote:
> Patrick Elliott wrote:
>> Try using an example where there is a tangible disparity between what
>> the people fighting the government and the people in the government
>> have to fight with,
>
> You mean, like, Afghanistan when the Russians or Americans invaded? You
> seemed to completely miss my point.
>
And you are missing mine. Russia didn't want to wipe out everything and 
start over, neither did the US. When you enemy is unwilling to kill 
everyone they come across to win, and/or are intent of making allies, 
you have some means, even if limited, to resist. When this isn't the 
case... you get things like WWII, where being a "freedom fighter" isn't 
going to get you any place.

And, even if you are in that sort of position.. the point of fighting a 
war against an aggressor is to eventually win. If it takes you 20, 30, 
50, etc. years to do that, there may not be enough of your own 
principles left to restore anything you where fighting to protect in the 
first place. If you want to defend yourself from corruption, you need to 
do it in a *short* time, not over decades. Otherwise, you are not 
fighting to protect/restore anything, you are fighting to replace what 
ever you had with something else, and it will never be the same thing 
you started with (it might not even be what you where fighting to 
defend/protect, by the time you are done).

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