Abe also wants to carry out political reforms such as changing Japan's constitution which enshrines pacifism.
Also don't forget, says Mr. Kagan, "unsubtle Christianity" and its strong strain of pacifism.
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Still others maintained that the problem was peculiarly Norwegian, a combination of inept policing and misguided pacifism.
Sound foreign policy predicates on peace, but not pacifism, strength, but not aggression, and expanded commercial relations.
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George Harrison had already fallen under the spell of the sitar and the maharishi's message appealed to John Lennon's angry pacifism.
Mr Bush's foreign wars do not accord with Amish pacifism, but his religious conviction and his stance on social issues have got their hearts aflutter.
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The message of the Judaeo-Christian religious heritage, for instance, is that doing evil to others is a sin, extolling the virtues of mercy, forgiveness, charity, love, and pacifism.
Many Tibetan and Burmese activists believe pacifism does not work.
Though he was granted an unconditional exemption from military service, his pacifism was viewed with contempt by many Britons, some of whom later found it hard to take his music seriously.
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That Britain seems to be moving away from the "special relationship" with Washington should come as no surprise given the tendency to pacifism and anti-Americanism in Britain since World War II.
Between militarism and pacifism lie diplomacy, accountability, and restraint.
We have Ashford to thank for the portraits of her superior, Mr. Mitchell, whose predictions about the war's course are often way off the mark, and a co-worker, Miss Bousie, whose pacifism was sorely tried.
An opponent of Labour's militant socialism and tendency to pacifism, he is a Christian believer who was sympathetic to George Bush and to a view of the world that regards Islamofascism as a mortal threat.
However, a national security policy cannot be subject to emotions or to the ideology of people who profess mere pacifism or wrongly believe that the enemy would not be our enemy if we treat it differently.
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Thus, its perceptions of U.S. intentions particularly that a potentially dangerous vacuum will be created with American disengagement from Korea may well encourage Japanese tendencies, either toward militarism or pacifism, contrary to the United States interests in the region.
But chiefly, perhaps, because the vociferous German Greens have been a political force in Germany for the past couple of decades, whereas the still-fragmented French ones are relative newcomers in France a country with little tradition of pacifism, nuclear protest or respect for the environment.
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