Who wins in a conflict is determined by who uses the superior tactics. It has virtually nothing to do with whose cause is "more just".
Just like everything else in nature, the survival of the fittest principle favors the party using the superior tactics. Morality has nothing to do with which lion kills the other lion.
And in this instance, history has repeatedly shown that an inferior party will defeat a technologically superior enemy in a guerilla-type war of attrition on the inferior party's home turf. The German barbarians' defeat of the Roman Empire, the American Revolution, Hitler's defeat in Russia, the Vietnam War, the Russians' defeat in Afghanistan...these are all examples.
It's got almost nothing to do with whose cause is "more just". EVERYONE in a conflict believes that theirs is the "more just" cause, or else they wouldn't be in the conflict in the first place. It's just a subjective perception that everyone in a conflict must have in order to be there at all.
2007-05-28
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