LH:
In case any pacifists are treating this discussion train seriously, they should understand that Fukuyama and Barnett both advocate processes that would result in world peace.<<
I asked a question that thus far no pacifist has answered. If (a conditional word) world peace can be achieved by means of the spread of Liberal-Democracy, shouldn't it be favored by pacifists even if it means a few wars here and there to prevent Liberal-Democracy from losing ground <<
Pacifists like to tote up the dead. Surely there would be fewer dead with a few wars to keep Liberal-Democracy on the expansive straight and narrow than if all wars regardless of their merit were to be resisted willy nilly -- given the fact that Pacifists merely impede and obfuscate.<<
Kill the pacifists! Willy nilly bastards! Impeders! Obfuscators!
They [pacificists] never succeed in actually stopping wars. In fact their efforts seem to encourage such people as Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein and Ahmadinejad. They hear about all that opposition to the administration's policies, and they think they don't need to take the Bush administration seriously.<<
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