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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
political pressure will do nothing for these people. It hasn't worked in China. It didn't work in Iraq. It didn't work in North Korea, and it will not work in Iran. As stated above, these totalitarian powers are more concerned with their own control over their own people than they are with how they will be accepted politically by other nations.
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Political pressure along with a peaceful people's revolution worked pretty well with the Yellow Revolution in the Philippines, the Orange Revolution in the Ukraine, the Rose Revolution in Georgia, the Solidarity movement in Poland....
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and sometimes direct action is the ONLY thing accomplishes anything. I refer you to our own history.
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When in our history (post-Constitution) has direct armed action accomplished anything?