| Because, G. Adams, it's actually quite an effective tactic used by nationalists to oust the military powers of liberal democracies - you can't talk them out of it, you can't enforce military crackdowns on them (that only makes it worse), you really can't do anything but leave, which is what they want you to do. All morality aside, such extremist guerilla fighting helped tremendously to oust the Israelis from Lebanon and the Americans from Vietnam. It's all about shock value and the lack of one's convictions on their own safety.
. . . whenever any government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundations on such principles and organizing its powers in such forms as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. |