"Gregory Morrow" > wrote in
:

> Your kind of pacifist thinking was de rigeur in the US in the post - WWI
> period, blake - and you know what *that* led to...

Pacifism was also popular much more recently, during the Ban the Bomb
movement of the 50's and early 60's (when I participated in marches on to
Parliament Hill), during the Unwinnable War, and again now as governments
are becoming embroiled in yet another quagmire.

Pacifist movements usually decry pointless violence. World War I was
largely pointless violence. QED.

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