Gaza: Worst Historical Analogy of the Week?

Deroy Murdock of the Hoover Institute asks us (and presumably Hamas) to remember that the civil rights movement narrowly avoided disaster by Dr. Martin Luther King's decision not to launch rocket attacks into the Upper West Side from bases in Harlem:

Picture the rockets' red glare as they rise from Watts and land in Beverly Hills. Up they soar in Harlem, and down they rain on the Upper West Side.

Such mayhem would have triggered a white crackdown on black areas. The squandered opportunity for greater racial equality and economic prosperity would have hobbled black progress, probably for decades. Barack Obama's presidential victory might have been a non-starter had Dr. King taken this low road.

Thank God Almighty, he did not.

Comments

[winston]

This analogy here is difficult and poor given the vastly different historical contexts. The United States government had not been outright preventing food, basical medical supplies, or even water access from black areas, for a start.

[Foo]

Excellent analogy... being a minority and launching attacks to kill civilians in majority areas are seldom a way for the minority to make progress.