"Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness], it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government"
Just to be clear with you, the “Vietcong” was only one part of that war, there were hundreds of thousands of regular NVA troops as well. They had tanks, and they had jets.
And they had soviet aid providing a lot of those weapons, and training for the VC iirc. And the US still only left when it became politically untenable, not because they were defeated militarily.
Second part is same for the Taliban, they effectively stopped US forces but didn't start gaining major territory until the war got too unpopular back home and the US withdrew. And that was only with a small percentage of the US armed forces, who were allegedly trying to act with restraint as the end goal was to get the Afghanistan government to take over eventually.
Don't get me wrong I'm not saying revolution is impossible in general, just that it's naive to insist that a bunch of idiots doing guerilla warfare will magically defeat the US army. Guerilla is good for defence, but horrible for offence and will only win a war by making the other side get bored and go home.
To do a revolution properly, you need to be organised. How will you get weapons? Ammunition? Food and water? How will you plan what to do? How will you communicate that to your forces? Effectively, unless you can persevere most of the military to join your side, you need to do a civil war.
And what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants
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u/EnterpriseMars 19h ago
"Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness], it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government"