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Did you see me say Giap or Ho were among the best insurgent leaders?
If you want to be the best, you have to win against the best, when the odds are against you.
Not be lucky enough to have a weak corrupt leader and a foreign invader do 3/4 of the work for you. I know you don't think the Chinese peasants joined Mao because of those songs. They joined for the same reason I would vote for John Kerry - the only other choice would be Dean or Kucinich. They had to choose between Mao - or the Japanese or Kai-shek, same as no choice at all. The Long March was not heroic, it was a full fledged retreat that probably wasn't even necessary, but it made him famous. Mao should have been dead years before he ever came to be a leader - he was lucky, not good.
For that same reason, I'm not impressed by Castro/Guevara.
The title of the thread is "Best Insurgent Leader" not "Luckiest Insurgent Leader".
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Somewhere a True Believer is training to kill you. He is training with minimal food or water, in austere conditions, training day and night. The only thing clean on him is his weapon and he made his web gear. He doesn't worry about what workout to do - his ruck weighs what it weighs, his runs end when the enemy stops chasing him. This True Believer is not concerned about 'how hard it is;' he knows either he wins or dies. He doesn't go home at 17:00, he is home.
He knows only The Cause.
Still want to quit?
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