What's the difference between bellicist and peacenik?

Bellicist


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Peacenik


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  • (1) It was a thinly veiled attempt to circumvent peaceniks such as ElBaradei, and win support for the eradication of the Brotherhood, and his own political ambitions.
  • (2) Hippies and peaceniks hid out in California Gulch, a fertile valley nearby.
  • (3) The perspective provided on world affairs by a familiar coalition of Trots, communists, peaceniks of the inter-war kind (check out the Peace Pledge Union ) are a mixture of the well-meaning and brutally geopolitical or utopian.
  • (4) A singer, an activist, a peacenik, a beauty, a lover (of some iconic men, it must be said).
  • (5) The peaceniks at CAAT, not unreasonably, wanted to know how a multinational arms dealer had come by their confidential documents.
  • (6) One glance northward to Syria is enough to make even erstwhile peaceniks wary of surrendering territory: the idea of a future Palestinian state overrun by Isis and on their doorstep terrifies Israelis.
  • (7) Obama effectively offered to trade an end to the Iraq war for continuation of the war on terrorism, something both his liberal supporters and conservative critics elided as it fit neither the picture of Obama the liberal savior or Obama the naive peacenik.
  • (8) His ambivalent fascination with soldiers, his disdain for the defeatism of the British in Singapore, and his lifelong love affair with fighter planes, set him apart from the long-haired peaceniks of later generations.
  • (9) What she says can be difficult for peaceniks, or pacifists, to hear - the unashamed justification for violence.
  • (10) Though originally dismissed by the Right as a bunch of long-hairs, peaceniks and cowards, it had been steadily growing in numbers and in the breadth of its constituency since its inception in 1965.

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