At some point, pacifism becomes part of the machinery of death.

[Sand Wind]

72. Right, good question...

I will reserve my answer, because It could lead to a kind of debate that will take time and need a place different than this one.

But while searching what could that mean for an English person I found this :

"Police Actions" and National Liberation[edit source | editbeta]
Although all pacifists are opposed to war between nation states, there have been occasions where pacifists have supported military conflict in the case of civil war or revolution [8] For instance, during the American Civil War,both the American Peace Society and some former members of the Non-Resistance Society supported the Union's military campaign, arguing they were carrying out a "police action" against the Confederacy, whose act of Secession they regarded as criminal.[8][9] Following the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, French pacifist René Gérin (1892-1957) urged support for the Spanish Republic.[10] Gérin argued that the Spanish Nationalists were "comparable to an individual enemy" and the Republic's war effort was equivalent to the action of a domestic police force suppressing crime.[10] In the 1960s, some pacifists associated with the New Left supported wars of national liberation and supported groups such as the Viet Cong and the Algerian FLN, arguing peaceful attempts to liberate such nations were no longer viable, and war was thus the only option.[11]

I found it interesting in the light of the debate about the "exceptionalism", "police of the world",...

Could that be possible that this "exceptionalism" come from your civil war ?

Just a guest, I don't know a lot about this...