Protester Shot in Head, Run Over in Genoa

[Joe R. Golowka]

From: "Wojtek Sokolowski" <sokol at jhu.edu>
> Again the point I'm making is not that state-like instiutions are
> invincible, but that the force that defeats them is not a popular
> insurgency, but external forces - other regimes or environmental pressure,
> sometimes acting in concert with native insurgents.

In most cases your'e probably right.  What external forces would you claim
caused the downfall of the Chi'in dynasty in China?  The encyclopedia says
that it fell due to peasent uprisings.  What about France in 1793?

Joe