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I must again admit error…
I was convinced that our current crop of war protestors were a new sub-genus: that their pacificsm was purely conditional and seated more in hatred of their own nation than in a genuine abhorrence of war.
Glen Reynolds corrects my error via a G. K. Chesterton anthology (Chesterton on War and Peace: Battling the Ideas and Movements that Led to Nazism and World War II) he received in the mail.
...a particular breed of pacifist that Chesterton saw as new in the 20th Century: “He does not so much believe in his own conscience as disbelieve in the common conscience which is the soul of any society. His hatred for patriotism is very much plainer than his love for peace.”
I sit corrected.
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