I don’t think you understand the nature of their message. They weren’t trying to get themselves killed as a form of political protest, they were trying to get themselves killed in order to demonstrate that the US could be hurt, and badly, by people willing to risk their lives to do so.
As such, their strategy was quite brilliant.
Empires always sneer at the efforts of guerillas and people who won’t fight by ‘civilized’ rules as cowards—see the British response to the Americans’ refusal to adopt mass marching tactics during the Revolutionary War.
I don’t think you understand the nature of their message. They weren’t trying to get themselves killed as a form of political protest, they were trying to get themselves killed in order to demonstrate that the US could be hurt, and badly, by people willing to risk their lives to do so.
As such, their strategy was quite brilliant.
Empires always sneer at the efforts of guerillas and people who won’t fight by ‘civilized’ rules as cowards—see the British response to the Americans’ refusal to adopt mass marching tactics during the Revolutionary War.