So says Iraq's embassy to Canada. The Edmonton Journal reported the story Saturday.
Iraq's embassy to Canada lashed out at the Christian Peacemaker Teams Friday, calling them "phoney pacifists" and "dupes" after the antiwar group responded to the rescue of three of its kidnapped activists by condemning the U.S.-led military intervention in Iraq.
The Iraqi embassy called CPT "willfully ignorant" and "outrageous," and accused the Chicago-based group of being on the side of anti-democratic forces in Iraq.
"The Christian Peacemaker Teams practises the kind of politics that automatically nominate them as dupes for jihadism and fascism," the embassy's statement said.
The embassy is right. Pacifism and anti-war activism are pointless when there's peace reigning in the world and counterproductive when evil people and nations attack the innocent.
A long time ago, I read Testament of Youth, Vera Brittain's beautiful, heartbreaking autobiography of World War I and its aftermath. Following WWI, she and many others of her acquaintance became pacifists in an attempt to prevent a recurrence of the kind of devastation the Great War brought to her life and to the world. But Adolph Hitler and Benito Mussolini and Joseph Stalin and so many others have shown since then that pacifism has no effect on people determined to wage war. And these beligerents must be met with force--not because force is desirable, but because evil people make it necessary.
Today, the people who are determined to wage or support war (al-Qaeda, Iran, Syria, etc.) will not be swayed by pacifist rhetoric any more than Hitler was. The best the pacifists can hope to accomplish is to prevent the defenders of liberty from doing their duty, and that places the pacifists squarely in the camp of the "dupes" being used by jihadists and fascists.
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These pacifists are living in a dream world. They need to wake up and face reality and soon.
I don't think there are many people who really want war. The vast majority of us would be thrilled with world peace, but that is not the reality. As long as there are evil men who try to oppress others and spread their hatred, then there is a need for those who are good among us to rise up and defend ourselves and our livelihoods.
If these pacifists really want peace, then they need to get out of the way and let the men and women out there facing danger and evil head-on do what has to be done.
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