History Forum / General / British History / November 2005

George Orwell perfectly understood the fundamental intellectual dishonesty,
disingenuousness and duplicity of much of the "Anti-War" Crowd.

DSH
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"The majority of pacifists either belong to obscure religious sects or
are simply humanitarians who object to taking life and prefer not to
follow their thoughts beyond that point.  But there is a minority of
intellectual pacifists, whose real though unacknowledged motive appears
to be hatred of western democracy and admiration for totalitarianism."

"Pacifist propaganda usually boils down to saying that one side is as bad as
the other, but if one looks closely at the writing of the younger
intellectual pacifists, one finds that they do not by any means express
impartial disapproval but are directed almost entirely against Britain and
the United States …"

George Orwell -- _Notes On Nationalism_, May 1945
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D. Spencer Hines

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