Wretchard-
India will never acheive what the U.S. military acheived in Iraq, however temporarily. Never.
The model of terror and submission is too simple and too strong, of liberty and responsibility too demanding.
The population of Massachussetts in 1787 was literate, skilled, and productive, far more than India or Islam. But Jonathon Smith, a farmer, rose to wittness Shay’s rebellion at the Massachussetts ratifying convention, and spoke in favor of the Union:
“People I say took up arms, and then, if you wanted to speak to them, you had the musket of death presented to your breast. They would rob you of your preperty, threaten to burn your houses, oblige you to be on your guard day and night…poor persons were set in the front, to be kiled by their own friends. Our distess was so great that we should have been glad to snatch at anything that looked like a government. Had any person that was able to protect us, come up and set up his standard, we should all have flocked to it, even if it had been a monarch, and that monarch might have proved a tyrant. So that you see that anarchy leads to tyranny, and better have one tyrant than so many at once.”