To: Tolik
Ghandi and the Indians also had the fortune of having the British as their oppressors.
6 posted on
01/14/2008 7:53:49 AM PST by
BufordP
(Had Mexicans flown planes into the World Trade Center, Jorge Bush would have surrendered.)
To: BufordP
True. Pacifist resistance is noble practiced against a power will humanitarian benevolence. It is a prescription for civilizational suicide when proferred to a regime that has no compunction about liquidating its opponents.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
10 posted on
01/14/2008 7:58:15 AM PST by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: BufordP
Ghandi and the Indians also had the fortune of having the British as their oppressors. Yep - if the Russians had won "The Great Game", the only thing that would have been accomplished by lying on the railroad tracks would have been to turn live Indians into dead ones.
30 posted on
01/14/2008 9:36:27 AM PST by
nina0113
(If fences don't work, why does the White House have one?)
To: BufordP
Ghandi and the Indians also had the fortune of having the British as their oppressors. How true. Your comment reminded me of Dinesh D’Souza’s excellent book “What’s so great about America” were he remembers a history teacher he admired telling him that if Hitler had be running India, Gandhi would have been turned into a lampshade.
32 posted on
01/14/2008 11:38:07 AM PST by
Gator101
(Don't tase me, Bro!)
To: BufordP
I read at least one [and I think more] alternative history Sci Fi stories where Gandhi comes up against Nazi occupation of India. He doesn’t fare real well in those stories.
Dinesh D’sousa quoted one of his teachers in India who said that if Hitler had been running India as a colony, Gandhi would have been a lampshade [or words to that effect].
36 posted on
01/14/2008 3:06:39 PM PST by
PzLdr
("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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