Gandhi identifies something most of us overlook: we tend to measure violence's success by immediate results, but ignore the machinery it leaves behind. A regime toppled by force may feel victorious, yet the broken institutions, traumatized populations, and normalized brutality persist long after the celebration ends. Rwanda's genocide killed nearly a million people in weeks, but the psychological wounds and fractured communities still shape the country decades later—a reminder that violence's true cost isn't counted in the moment of triumph. What makes this observation cutting is that it doesn't argue against all forceful action on moral grounds alone; it argues against violence as *strategy*, since the collateral damage outlasts the victory.