Comment Re:Why? (Score 1) 114
Not necessarily. It all depends on how fast said gold is going. After all, you punch a hole in the side of a tank using liquid copper.
Of course it's not sufficient. What leader will fight if he has nothing to gain, and more importantly, expects to lose?
And, it should go without saying: People can be wrong. Both about thinking that they will win, and can take into account irrelevant factors like "guts" or "purity", and that they have something to gain (e.g. irrational concepts like "honor" or "pride"), but in modern, literate societies those factors are less common and less prevalent, varying from society to society and individual to individual.
The means-and-ends moralists, or non-doers, always end up on their ends without any means. -- Saul Alinsky