I am a militant pacifist and we must spread this ideology by force when necessary. I would have us fight every war that is required until there is not just peace, but peace and justice for all. No more dictators, no more tyranny, no more oppression, no more axis of evil. These things are incompatible with my ideological position and must be destroyed. A pacifist must be ready to fight a war against any evil at a moment's notice, to destroy it the moment it shows its face, before it can grow to threaten the peace of the world.
This is the kind of pacifism the west forgot how to do, and it is how we have failed. We have allowed evil to exist and grow for far too long. We have turned a blind eye to it. We let it become profitable for us to allow it to exist. We allowed it to justify itself economically and validate itself as if it were just another way of seeing the world, another way of governing, another way of doing business, another way of leading. Intolerance of intolerance itself does not make one intolerant. In fact it is tolerance of intolerance that is neither sustainable or logically valid.
The Cold War was won, and we disarmed, and went home to rest on our laurels. Evil did not. We turned our eyes to profit, to capitalism which had won the victory for us, and we retooled it to make us rich instead of strong, which we felt was our just rewards. After the conclusion of the Cold War we did almost nothing to address evil in the third world. We did little to address evil in the second world. Perhaps most importantly, we did nothing to stop evil from creeping into the first world too. Both during the Cold War, and afterwards. And look how far we have now fallen.
I am a militant pacifist, I will fight evil in all its forms, and I will always pursue truth and freedom and the dream of real peace, a fragile and delicate thing that can only exist with truth, with freedom, and without evil. Peace can only be defended through force. I accept that. You should too.