Apologies for the duplication as I pointed this out on another thread, but Kember's pacificism is not restricted to Tony's war in Iraq.
Kember refused National Service in 1949 - refusing to stand up against the Russians at the time of the Berlin airlift, the Rape of Eastern Europe and the Gulag.
Perhaps more charitably, I'm reminded of that perceptive phrase in the Introduction to "Sagittarius Rising" by Cecil Lewis: 'We are told that men grow wiser as the grow older, but I often think they grow more foolish'.
Hear, hear!