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...role: el Cid. In this Anthony Mann film, Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar is an 11th-century Spanish soldier who tempers force with wisdom, seeking a peace with the large local Islamic minority it is his job to subdue, and preaching moderation in the Court of King Ferdinand. Almost a pacifist warrior, he spends most of the film debating large issues with other beautiful people (Sophia Loren, John Fraser, Raf Vallone) - until the film's final battle, when, nearly dead, he orders that his body be strapped to his horse so that his presence will put fear into the enemy...
...what happened and what should have happened. He shows us a vain, bloodthirsty Winston Churchill overeager to wage war and not overly particular about bombing civilians. He shows us Franklin D. Roosevelt turning away European refugees and baiting the Japanese before Pearl Harbor. As a counterweight, Baker spotlights international pacifist movements, with Mohandas Gandhi as their principal spokesperson. Ultimately Baker appears to be making the argument that no violence is ever justifiable, even in self-defense, and that, in Gandhi's words, "Hitlerism and Churchillism are in fact the same thing. The difference is only one of degree...
...School of Government invited his predecessor, Mohammad Khatami, to speak in 2006. Protests swirled around the event, with invocations directed at the ex-president to condemn his replacement’s recklessness. None of the invective, however, dealt with the man’s actual political position as a pacifist and a pro-Western reformer. In 1997, Khatami won election three-to-one on the strength of young people passionate about the prospect of change (sound familiar?). Yes, theocratic authority overcame its democratic counterpart and stunted Khatami’s suite of reforms, but his very viability speaks volumes about...
...easy to convince a people to go to war, one political leader wrote. "All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifist for a lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country." Robert Byrd declaimed that quote to the Senate, as Congress was debating whether to authorize the President to go to war against Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Then Byrd read the source: Hermann Goering...
Some fans wondered why, over a half-century, the acutely perceptive, humane, funny writer Grace Paley, above, published just three books of short stories. The mother of two and self-described "combative pacifist," who said she was too "interruptible" to write a novel, had other equally important stuff to do. She was a visible political agitator, visiting Hanoi during the Vietnam War, rallying antinuke protesters, and handing out antiwar leaflets on her Greenwich Village street corner. Among the first writers to celebrate the lives of ordinary mothers and wives--with her pitch-perfect ear for the Yiddish-tinged dialogue...