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By Hamid Golpira
Pacifists undermining quest for world peace?

TEHRAN, March 8 (MNA) -- Pacifists are undermining efforts to establish world peace, or so says a cabinet member of a country that calls itself a superpower.

Addressing NATO officers and officials at the National Defense University in Washington on February 23, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said the demilitarization of Europe, “where large swaths of the general public and political class are averse to military force and the risks that go with it,” is impeding efforts to establish real security and lasting peace in the twenty-first century.

This sounds like the slogans from George Orwell’s book 1984: “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”

It is outrageous that the U.S. defense secretary is making such remarks.

However, it is even more outrageous that he’s getting away with it.

Why is nobody calling him on this?
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