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Pastimes : Let's Talk About the Wars (moderated)
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To: kumar who wrote (313)9/11/2006 1:28:34 AM
From: Lazarus_Long  Read Replies (2) of 441
 
Yes. But Mr. Gandhi was a gentleman. And proved it. And died for it, too.

A hypothetical question: Suppose Hitler, instead of making his idiotic wasteful attack on the USSR, instead had continued his attack through Balkans, taken Greece, Turkey, swung south through Palestine, through the intervening countries into Afghanistan, then taken India. And Gandhi had tried his nonviolent approach against the Wehrmacht. What would have happened?

I suspect they would have murdered him into cold blood.

The difference was Gandhi was dealing with the British, who are much more loath to engage in such tactics. Rather than have a bloodbath to keep India, they gave it independence, which it has used well.

(And, yes I know of one occasion on which the British did open fire on unarmed civilians.)
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