War or Freedom

KC wrote a fine comment on When All Your Options are Bad

...I'd remind our British friends that guns are just one weapon, as the Hungarian people demonstrated during the uprising. Roadblocks and molotov cocktails and spades and just about any other implement can be useful too. It's not necessary to confront either police or troops head-on, if you can keep them running from one eruption to the next.

Pitched battles are to be avoided in any case, since the object (presumably) is to bring enough pressure on the government of the day to either topple it or force it to change laws and policies.

Let's learn from our history and our enemies. The Swamp Fox of the Revolutionary War, though initially rather despised, turned out to be a very effective fighter and leader. Hit them and fade away. Quite unlike the formal battles the British were used to fighting. It was effective.

And much as I hate it, the terrorists in Iraq have caused quite a lot of damage, both physical and psychological (at least to the sissies back home), so that support for the war is ...less robust than it might have been.

Perhaps the very "sissyness" of some of our fellow-citizens can be, instead of a constant source of frustration...the means by which we succeed!

Cause enough disruption, aggravation, and violence, and they (as always) will want to compromise, negotiate, surrender.

Remember, PEACE AT ALL COSTS is their motto. This is our offer:

"You can have WAR, or you can have FREEDOM. You have to choose!"

Against all their instincts, they'll grudgingly choose freedom if it's the only alternative to war.

And it's up to us to see that it is.

The Gunslinger