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Pacifism might be an ideology, because it's still a power struggle between those who believe in violence and those who don't. Pacifism could never be forced on arms dealers without recourse to law, threats of prison and other state-sanctioned violence. Pacifism would be a uniquely paradoxical case, but unless someone can persuade the military complex to give up war and weapons development with a stern talking to over a cup of tea and a sandwich, some kind of enforcement would be necessary.

Marching for peace wouldn't be an ideology. As Migeru said, there could be all kinds of reasons for going on a march.

And Martin Kramer - a prominent neo-con with a jihadist mentality probably isn't be the best way to debunk Pape.

I like Pape's take on things. I don't know if he's right or not, but his ideas make much more sense to me than neocon jihadist clash-of-civilisation fantasies do.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Sat Aug 5th, 2006 at 06:20:24 AM EST
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For the record, that's why I don't like your ideoly = violence definition.
by Laurent GUERBY on Sun Aug 6th, 2006 at 12:24:40 PM EST
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