Yeap, I'm an evil pacifist. I am that crazy cousin that your family never talks about that goes on road trips and preaches nonviolence. I will destroy us all with my naivete and my unwillingness to grow up and accept the harshness of reality. I just don't understand the real world. The world of terrorists and evil people. The very fact I exist is a sign of societal moral decay. Pacifism? You mean letting our opponents destroy us out of a need for philosophical masturbation? Some parent somewhere did not inform me that our country is constantly under attack and we need a huge machine to protect us at all times from those that seek to destroy us. Never mind me.
As an evil pacifist, I don't believe in security. I think it's a stupid word. It's something no one can deliver and if anyone promises it, they are either trying to get one over on you or don't know better themselves. You are never secure. You can always die for no apparent reason. An accident at your job, a drunk driver, heck, even a meteor falling from space, could all kill you, at higher rate than a terrorist no less. So much for "security." That means that people trying to kill you will have to get in line. Al-Qaeda is an ideology. Fundamentalist Islam is an ideology. It exists in sermons, books, and madrassas, and preys upon weak minds who need fundamentalism to plug the holes in their necessity to have order. There will always be fanatics until logic and liberalism reign throughout the world. You have a template in your own country to tame the passions of religious fundamentalism, but our country is exceptional. Other countries aren't, so why look to ourselves for the answer? Pacifists like me will never get it. Our arguments are all noise and no sound. People who killed millions to "combat the commies" are absolutely no different from religious fanatics. Just look at Indonesia. 9/11 happened because we were not on guard, and there is no reason to use that as a basis for the future. If we were expecting a terrorist attack, we would have caught it. In fact, we did catch them. The "terrorists" we fear had to use measures we couldn't defend against to attack us: minutely in fact. We have, since 9/11 happened, stepped up security. There is no reason to be scared. But I'm an evil pacifist. Therefore, it's all part of my plan to destroy you. Sleep safe in your bed. Never mind me.
Because I'm an evil pacifist trying to destroy America, I'm suspicious of nation building. I think of the concept as "military contractor cash give away." I could never wrap my mind around the fact that the military is just for killing people and destroying property, not for building a nation. I was raised by rich parents and have a Masters degree in nothing, so because I'm not a salt of the earth plumber, I can't realize that perhaps there are peaceful ways to solve problems and deal with evil people that are actually more effective than killing 60,000 civilians in a country and then turning around and telling them their deaths were for their own benefit. I notice that you prefer to use mercenaries to do the dirty jobs you want done. You can hire men who work for private companies who are not beholden to military code and work under "big boy rules," which basically means killing the people you're trying to save while killing the bad guys. Of course, I'm too naive and stupid to understand that private companies are now carrying out assassinations, and I could never wrap my feeble, compassion addled mind around the idea that someone would take advantage of a war that's already raging to line their pockets.
As a pacifist, I'm utterly ignorant of human nature and believe that everyone has a bright, shining light inside of them that they could use to make the world a better place, if only they didn't believe in neo-fascist bull@#$@#. Idealistic garbage. Clearly, the world is @#$@#$ed before it got out of the gate. There are people you can't reason with or understand. You must murder them by any means necessary. I mean kill. Killing is somehow different than murder. That must be true. There's no way we can use our vast knowledge of history or human nature to understand why someone might fight for their countries independence, or why someone might think that the United States might actually stand for "self determination" in word and not in deed. Pacifists like myself will lead you down the wrong path.
As an evil pacifist, I believe that your guns are ineffectual against a military that can use them better. They won't protect you against your "so called" tyranny. You're not as powerful as you think, but then again, I'm a skinny milquetoast pacifist who doesn't believe in himself. I must be projecting that part of my psyche on you. As a pacifist, I'm too filled with peace and an inability to feel aggression that I could never dream of a day where your technological prowess would outweigh your ability to feel for and understand other living beings who are not at all unlike yourself. We don't have an effective means of cleaning oil spills, we cannot educate our young in a clear and effective manner and we are still arguing over basic tenets of government. Yet, we can sure use our powers of math and science to murder people across the globe and rationalize the slaughter by saying "Their women are not fighters." Being of a different religion is a sin, but as a pacifist, I could never comprehend this simple tenet. As a pacifist, I lack the wisdom and foresight to use cultural differences as a means to pass a death sentence on others. If only I could.
You are lucky to not have many pacifists like myself leading you into a world filled with dangers, traps, and horrors. We have no clue what to do and have no understanding of human nature. We could never foresee average Americans executing young children in the jungle. Men who were your neighbors, even your church leaders, saying that a child should be murdered because "they will become Viet Cong in the future." Logical. I could never grasp that logic, because I don't love my artificial nation state enough. I am weak and fallible. I am a walking mess of immorality. How can I go on?
Feel safe that someone like me will never be at the helm. You'll never have someone suspicious of military power and who checks to see whether you are making mistakes in your killing and erring on the side of peace or aggression. You can't have it both ways. Whoops, I don't get that. Sorry.