Anti-War is not Pro-Peace

The "peace" movement is a misnomer. What is often overlooked in the heat of debate, where things are often either boiled down to their essentials (a good thing) or over-simplified (a bad thing), is that "peace" is a purely relative term. There is no absolute peace, it only exists insofar as there is no conflict. Claiming to be for "peace," then, can mean a multitude of things. So many things, in fact, that the claim is almost meaningless unless it is accompanied by some more specific plan of action.

The annoyingly simplistic argument that doing nothing will constitute "peace," or even the idea that continued inspections equates to "peace" merely makes the erroneous claim that no war = peace, when in fact no war only = no war.