Poll: If your country was invaded, would you join a resistance?

[RabbidKuriboh]

Ireland has proven time and time again that insurgency is not our thing, our method involves simply bitching about the occupying force for a few centuries until they get pissed and leave

 

[Kaymish]

resistance all the way i will be going all gurella on their aresses and hope someone cares enough to atleast supply us with gear and if not theft is in by blood

it is my home and it has its problems but it is also unlike anywhere else and if you attack my home you will have to step over my bloody corpse for it

 

[RatRace123]

Probably not, not because of any idealogical things, I like my country well enough to want to defend it... it's just that I'd most likely die very quickly in any actual combat scenario.
I'm also a coward.

 

[Burs]

Yes. First, my country would likely laugh it's rear end off at an invasion on the united states(may I introduce you to a magical thing called a "history book"), then teach you the same lesson we taught Britain, Mexico, Germany, Japan, Germany again, and Al Queida(eat it, Osama).

Rule #1 of history: Don't attack America. Rule #2 Don't invade Russia in winter.

wait we never invaded you, if anything you invaded OUR colonies -.^

 

[AmrasCalmacil]

If we were invaded I'd probably want to join up with whatever I could, whether it was a resistance or whatever would remain of the British Army.

 

[AngloDoom]

I'd do everything in my power to keep my friends and family safe. I'm not going to put my life on the line to defend this patch of dirt from another patch of dirt.

 

[Ogargd]

I would but I'm sane...

 

[HerrBobo]

I have already been in the army, so yeah I would fight and I know how to fight.

 

[SckizoBoy]

Ireland has proven time and time again that insurgency is not our thing, our method involves simply bitching about the occupying force for a few centuries until they get pissed and leave

I'm sure this [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_War_of_Independence] would beg to differ. Once again, the British Parliament just fucked up again.

Could've kept America, but did little to deal with the colonists' problems except 'give us your money', and the Irish 'problem' just takes the cake. The largest empire in the world... but it didn't really last for long, did it?

 

[StarkillerisDead]

I doubt I'd have the guts to fight. Combined with that, I would have extreme moral issues killing anyone unless I was utterly convinced there was no other choice.

So yeah, guess I'd end up running for my life and dying in a hole.

 

[viranimus]

I would if it weren't for my natural defiance to authority which would end up getting me killed almost instantly once captured.

 

[RabbidKuriboh]

Ireland has proven time and time again that insurgency is not our thing, our method involves simply bitching about the occupying force for a few centuries until they get pissed and leave

I'm sure this [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_War_of_Independence] would beg to differ. Once again, the British Parliament just fucked up again.

Could've kept America, but did little to deal with the colonists' problems except 'give us your money', and the Irish 'problem' just takes the cake. The largest empire in the world... but it didn't really last for long, did it?

hyperbole on my part

 

[Terminal Blue]

I have no particular love for my country, but the idea of a doomed resistance movement has a romantic appeal, so I think I'd join up. Resistance doesn't mean soldiering though, more likely it means carrying on with your everyday life whilst occasionally sabotaging something or passing information to outside forces.

Yes. First, my country would likely laugh it's rear end off at an invasion on the united states(may I introduce you to a magical thing called a "history book"), then teach you the same lesson we taught Britain, Mexico, Germany, Japan, Germany again, and Al Queida(eat it, Osama).

Britain didn't invade America, a British colony rebelled and became America.
Mexico didn't invade America, America invaded Mexico.
Germany didn't invade America, America declared war on Germany.
Japan invaded a couple of American colonies, they didn't invade America.
Again, Germany didn't invade America, America declared war on Germany.
al-Qaeda didn't invade America (seriously, the number of people who seem to think al-Qaeda is basically the real life version of Cobra), a group of people trained by al-Qaeda flew some planes into a building.

You might want to reread that history book.

 

[Frankster]

If I can understand the foreign army's language then vive la resistance, il be a spy

If not, can always just act innocent and cover for others, either way the french part of my family was in the resistance so feel like i'd be betraying a family tradition by not joining one if need arises.

 

[Dags90]

By whom? For what reasons?

I'm not simply going to leap to defense like some guard dog.

But as a general rule, no.

 

[similar.squirrel]

It depends on the invading force, really. I wouldn't join the armed forces, though. Guerilla resistance is more suited to my way of thinking.

 

[Gaiseric]

(seriously, the number of people who seem to think al-Qaeda is basically the real life version of Cobra)

If Al-Qaeda had the Weather Dominator would you fight them? Would you be yelling "Cobra!" or "Yo! Joe!"?

 

[SckizoBoy]

hyperbole on my part

Meh, no problem, though to be fair, the 'Cogadh na Saoirse' was coming, since Ireland (who, as far as history is concerned, I kinda feel sorry for) was being squabbled over by England and France for almost five hundred years.

Ireland hates England, England wants to keep Ireland in line, France hates England too, but they're too cheap to use their own soldiers. Result? Shit goes down in Ireland... repeatedly. No wonder a lot of Irish buggered off to the continent (joining the French/HRE armies, the MacMahon family comes to mind).

 

[Moosh50]

Hell yes. My grandpa gave 5 years of his life to defend this country, I couldn't live with myself if I didn't do the same.