The OTHER Roosevelt
I was browsing over at RightWingStuff, and came across this Teddy Roosevelt quote:
"The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer."
I like that.
JASmius adds: Pacifists confuse ends with means. Unable, for all their moral supremacism, to make actual moral distinctions between ourselves and our enemies, they abhor the latter less than the means necessary to successfully resist them, and the employment of those means becomes their transfer vehicle for collective self-loathing.
They are defeated before the war ever begins. 'Tis but a small journey to collaboration, passive or active, from there.
"The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer."
I like that.
JASmius adds: Pacifists confuse ends with means. Unable, for all their moral supremacism, to make actual moral distinctions between ourselves and our enemies, they abhor the latter less than the means necessary to successfully resist them, and the employment of those means becomes their transfer vehicle for collective self-loathing.
They are defeated before the war ever begins. 'Tis but a small journey to collaboration, passive or active, from there.
posted by Jennifer at 2:36 AM
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