Gandhism - Where would it work?

I am trying to analyze if Gandhism works everywhere? Its become a fad to quote Gandhian ways these days....from Munna Bhai to Muslim Issues..liberals quote the non violence and pacifism that Gandhi idolized so much. I somehow believe it doesnt work in every situation and here is my analysis:

• Non Violence as an instrument of bargain doesnt work well between similarly equipped adversaries. FOr example, we can talk all the peace we want, talk of trade and comerce, but non violence is neither a possible or plausible tool to solve the Kashmir issue, simplay because India and Pakistan are almost equally powerful. The fact that India and Pakistan have fought four wars, there are human rights violations on both sides, so much blood lost but still we mainitain around a quarter million army on the border always ready to confront should be used a evidence.
• Non Violence theory i believe works when one of the adversaries is weak, so it would work effectively in case of Palestenians against Israel or even the Iraqis against USA. The reason is that, non violence in order to be effective needs to draw heavily on getting the people to sympathize with the less powerful adversary. The point am trying to make is, as long as Americans see the coffins of their soldiers blown up or Israelis have their homes blown up the people of USA or Israel wont sympathize with the adversary. It ll happen only in case, say the Iraqis give up arms and the American public view how the strongest nation in teh world is keeping a lowly weak Iraq hostage. Thats when the public emotion turns to Iraqis and they start sympathizing. The large support and empathy with the "Palestinian Intifada" proves my point as coffins of innocent 6 Yr Olds makes the eyes of even the hawks a bit wet :)
  
• Why did it work in case of INDIA against the British? Because of the above theory. The indians were weak, the british strong, and the revolutionaries helped but the simple large numbers of non violent indians overhelmed the british empire. HUmans by large can not kill unless there is an urge of revenge. :)

Lets see if Gandhi would come out of books, screens and seminars and make this world a more peaceful place....hmmm..a really optimistic start to a sat noon :):)