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Showing Original Post only (View all)When people call the majority opposed to Syrian intervention.... [View all]
"war weary" or claim that their opposition is because they're "tired of war", this denigrates principled opposition to military intervention.
Yes, I am "war weary". It's hard NOT to be "tired of war" when all I've known for all my 60+ years is one war or another, all for nebulous reasons that boil down to imperialism and capitalist's profits. However, the reasons I've opposed ALL of those wars throughout my life is NOT because I'm a pacifist or because I'm "war weary". I've opposed all of those wars for reasons, real and logical that I've worked out and studied for myself. And even pacifists do not oppose the Syrian intervention because they're "war weary". They oppose because they are opposed to ALL wars.
So do NOT denigrate an anti-war stance by calling it something it's not.