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Mohandas Gandhi and Nonviolent Resistance Gandhi’s methods of nonviolence resistance did indeed work for the people of India, but for other cases this method would not have worked as well. For example, if a country such as Iraq used this technique of nonviolence in the war between the U.S. vs. Iraq they would not have gotten very far. The main reason is because the U.S. has a very strong military force that is very well trained and can topple almost everything over. Since Iraq was seen as a threat the U.S. had to take action and nothing even a nonviolent resistant method would stop them. The U.S. wanted to take over Iraq and that’s exactly what they were going to do. Since Iraq was not controlled by another country at the time, like India was, nonviolence resistance would do nothing for them. By taking action to this method nothing would be gained, just lost for the people of Iraq. For India this method of resistance added to the loss of money and suffering economy for the British and soon this drove the British out. This allowed the people of India to be able to have self rule. The people of Iraq already had self rule and to violently resist would not harm any other economy, but it’s own. Although the people of Iraq