Jim D: "shouldn't being able to govern a group of people make the group more
able to resist attack by others? and shouldn't more successful resistance
aid in governance?"
If the area were isolated from the world. But the first 'problem' that a
resistance group faces when it becomes a governing group is an all-out
assault, sometimes open, sometimes invisible, from all the real powers of
the world. And that kind of assault is incompatible with instituting, as a
governing authority, the goals that had energized it as a resistance. And in
answer to Joseph's question ("Are there any historical examples of these two
things being done well by the same entity simultaneously?"" I believe the
answer is No!
Carrol
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