[good1]

a pacifist is still a coward and a parasite

Exactly so! An earlier poster said that pacifists only exist in this country--how true.

The one glaring omission from the writer's essay is any congnizant knowledge of sin and its effects on human society. These people haven't learned anything from either history or theology.

[Octar]

While one could expound at length obout the failings of pacifism. there are so few of them that doing so is only an exercise in rhetoric. Something like going on at length about why Nader is a socialist dope.