Prohibition was primarily the work of one pressure group

Re:Prohibition was primarily the work of one pressure group by Retric on Monday October 19, 2015 @04:53PM (#10415658)

The troubles in northern Ireland suggest you can have a long term insurgency without losing a country. Of note it was not defeated with military power, but it was also failed in it's long term goals.

As such there is no cognitive dissonance as propping up a country is different from crushing all opposition.

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Re:Prohibition was primarily the work of one pressure group by pjc50 on Tuesday October 20, 2015 @09:57AM (#10419125)

Indeed. These people who seem to want violent insurgency as a political right should take a look at how that works out in situations other than the US war of independence. It's usually indecisive with a lot of people getting killed more or less at random.

Mind you, last time I ran the numbers, it was safer to be in Belfast during the troubles than in Detroit over the same period.

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