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In reply to the discussion: At some point, pacifism becomes part of the machinery of death. [View all]Faryn Balyncd
(5,125 posts)93. This guy equates the rejection of unilateral bombing with "having no effective response to the...
...."having no effective response to the use of nerve gas by a government against its citizens".
(This guy must deserve some kind of reward for coming up with one of the most pathetic strawman arguments ever published.)
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IIRC, it arose so quickly that any response would have been too little, too late.
HooptieWagon
Sep 2013
#102
If I am a pacifist and I watch somebody else get killed because I refused to intervene,
mythology
Sep 2013
#56
it's not 'pacifism' to resist the counterproductive and destabilizing force of our military
bigtree
Sep 2013
#7
Never heard of codswallop, but got the context. Sounds kind of British, but better than some
libdem4life
Sep 2013
#14
How can we talk about pacifism, when our leaders didn't even want to run their idea by the UN???
reformist2
Sep 2013
#13
Yes. It would be an excellent way to shame Russia and China for their complicity.
reformist2
Sep 2013
#33
And how, specifically, does shaming Russia stop Syria from using chemical weapons? (nt)
jeff47
Sep 2013
#39
R#5 & K provisionally for open-mind/ (other things I can't think of right now) n/t
UTUSN
Sep 2013
#15
"No, we're the only people who are aghast who have sufficient military power to pull off a strike."
mick063
Sep 2013
#49
One of the larger piles of bullshit I've seen on DU. Looks like it has magic mushrooms on it too.
L0oniX
Sep 2013
#24
I like Sebastian Junger, but it sounds like he's been embedded too long. n/t
DisgustipatedinCA
Sep 2013
#25
The US has no standing whatsoever to be judging any other country on the use of WMD
eridani
Sep 2013
#81
I'm usually as liberal as it gets and favor the current possible diplomatic solution....
rynestonecowboy
Sep 2013
#73
War doesn't solve anything either. We are a dispicable species. There is not much that can
liberal_at_heart
Sep 2013
#51
Just think if we would have joined in with the Brittish and French after Dunkirk how many lives
demosincebirth
Sep 2013
#59
I need to hear screaming to be convinced the pacifists are being defeated, the evil countries
Dragonfli
Sep 2013
#69
Well, then we're defining "humanity" funny when 100k dead isn't a crime, but 1.4k is.
AtheistCrusader
Sep 2013
#67
at no point did this individual define "pacifism". would be interested to see what that individual
niyad
Sep 2013
#68
as opposed to launching missile strikes that may not "be particularly effective"
fishwax
Sep 2013
#84
not sure even the local fishwrap would publish this piece, which is really saying something.
niyad
Sep 2013
#92
This guy equates the rejection of unilateral bombing with "having no effective response to the...
Faryn Balyncd
Sep 2013
#93
Just because missles aren't being lobbed, that doesn't mean nothing is being done.
notadmblnd
Sep 2013
#104
Internationalism is not Isolationism. Pacifism is not the "machinery of death".
Tierra_y_Libertad
Sep 2013
#109