The more things change, the more they stay the same. Here is George Orwell during the 1940s:

Pacifist propaganda usually boils down to saying that one side is as bad as the other, but if one looks closely at the writings 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.Ý Moreover they do not as a rule condemn violence as such, but only violence used in defense of the western countries.

Orwell didn't think much of the dangerously uninformed and illogical rationale for the pacifism of the Left during WWII. One imagines that if he could see the moral relativism and anti-Americanism of today's anti-war movement, he would say much what he did then: "One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that:Ý no ordinary man could be such a fool."