Reply #86: it did for Algeria

[tainowarrior]

South Africa's ANC, under Mandela, struck at white South African civilians too.

Are the victims of massive, overwhelming military might just supposed to take it, and not resort to any tactics that may bring the horrors of war back to the oppressors? It's unrealistic to expect people to act like lambs when they're being slaughtered. No, they will fight, and fight brutally. Read Fanon's "Wretched of the Earth".

I don't like suicide bombings, and if I had my say and power on it, I'd bar it. I don't legitimize it, but I do recognize it as a reality of war and war-like conditions. I fully EXPECT weaker opponents to use whatever forms of warfare are available to them, including suicide bombing. As a political scientist, I'd say that a sound political analysis would be to assume suicide bombings will continue under occupation/unequal conditions, and that as occupation/unequal conditions ease, so do suicide bombings.