A Strongly Recommended Read.

The Peace Racket, in the latest issue of City Journal. The money quote:

George Orwell would have understood the attraction of privileged young people to the Peace Racket. "Turn-the-other-cheek pacifism," he observed in 1941, "only flourishes among the more prosperous classes, or among workers who have in some way escaped from their own class. The real working class . . . are never really pacifist, because their life teaches them something different. To abjure violence it is necessary to have no experience of it."

And the final paragraph echoes much of what I have been saying here - and expands on it - since I started this blog.