2007-01-10 15:32:00 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
I think that all depends on how closely the ideology is linked to the nation, and also, the success the ideology has had as a whole in all of the nations it has occupied.
Take the ideology of Communism for example.
It has failed in every nation that took it up, so that says that those nations weren't each the cause of their failure (e.g. Russia, China, Cuba), but rather that the ideology itself is not a very strong or effective ideology.
Then of course, there is the unmatched success of the terrorist ideology in this century.
This ideology has become successful mainly because it has almost completely separated itself from obvious or conspicious alliances with any one country like it used to have (e.g. Iraq, Afghanistan), but is comprised of mobile terrorists who have no permanent national base in any one country but stay in whichever country is most favorable to their ideology at the time.
Seeing the many successes this strategy has brought the terrorists, the failure of the U.S. troops in the war in Iraq was also for this same reason - the terrorists did not have a central base but were spread out everywhere, infiltrating both the civilians and the Iraqi army and police forces.
So to answer your question, the success of a group's ideology is more important than the success of that group's nation, because if an ideology is strong by itself, it doesn't matter if it fails in any one nation; it can move to and find success in another nation.
2007-01-11 07:05:24 · answer #1 · answered by STILL standing 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ideology doesn't always stand for a nation. It can be important in other topics, as well. Without an idea, where is the nation? Without a base for where the future is, do you wonder how long the nation will last?
2007-01-11 00:17:01 · answer #2 · answered by High-strung Guitarist 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nation, without the success of our great nation, our personal ideology is a moot point.
2007-01-11 01:22:42 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ideology shapes an individual's definition of the success of their nation. It's difficult to seperate the two.
2007-01-10 23:54:47 · answer #4 · answered by brickity hussein brack 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I like to consider myself more of a nationalist, so I definently say nation, I often go against my ideology, or at least mold it to different challenges, I wish more people would do so.
2007-01-10 23:54:47 · answer #5 · answered by asmith1022_2006 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Success of your nation. Without that your ideology ain't worth crap.
2007-01-10 23:36:06 · answer #6 · answered by time_wounds_all_heelz 5 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Success of your nation of course. Otherwise Communism would still be alive, no?
2007-01-10 23:49:59 · answer #7 · answered by No 1 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The success of our nation. I would rather be wrong than see our nation fail.
2007-01-10 23:38:26 · answer #8 · answered by JudiBug 5 · 5⤊ 1⤋
The failure of one is the failure of the other.
Disecting a frog in this manner will never get you a frog. All the pieces are there, is it a frog or a mess, you just throw away.
2007-01-10 23:50:30 · answer #9 · answered by eks_spurt 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Respecting Andy's request to cut you a pass; which I did.
Your recent flurry of Violation notices was totally unwarranted. I haven't even touched any of your postings since then.
2007-01-11 07:32:56 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋