[island911]

"And yet I am a liberal . . ..But please do not stereotype."

As soon as you put a label on yourself, you enter in to a stereotype.

When you throw out "the majority of the worlds population" as sharing a common stance against the war, you again stereotype.

Obviously the people of the world are more diverse than any stereotype, and yet stereotyping provides utility even though it is faulty. Similar to war really.

If you have to kill, a mass-killer, to make the world a safer place, then of course you have to toss out the whole pacifist ideal. The alternative is to accept the mass killer will continue to kill . . . but of course if you frown hard enough he may stop killing . . .just for you and your good intentions.