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Why It's So Hard to Understand That the Violence Your Country Exports Is Terrorism @alternet: Attribution bias is a familiar theme in the literature of modern psychology. “I do not understand the squeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favor of using poison gas against uncivilized tribes. It would spread a lively terror.”—Winston Churchill, 1920, with regard to the uprising in Iraq.
Amitabh Pal, "A Pacifist Uncovered," http://www.progressive.org/mag_amitpalabdul
Leo Tolstoy, The Law of Love and the Law of Violence, University Press of the Pacific, 2001.
H. D. Thoreau, "Civil Disobedience," http://thoreau.eserver.org/default.html
Statement of Conscientious Objection to War in Any Form
I hereby affirm, and publish for all the world to witness, my moral opposition to the use of violence to settle disputes. Consequently, I refuse to participate in, or cooperate with, any group, organization, or agency of government that would require me to engage in any act of violence against a fellow human being. Furthermore, I hereby pledge and affirm, from this day forward, to organize my life and livelihood in such a way as to promote peacemaking as a practical ideal.