we are a pretty pacifist bunch now when it comes to actual warfare.
Its mostly hypocrisy.
The whole german pacifist movement thingy is something I'd like to call National Pacifism, the continuation of National Socialism.
The ideology is mostly used to rage against the evil Imperialism of the evil "cultureless", capitalistic US "Besatzers" (in contrast to the cultural germans) and its "völkerrechtwidrige" wars (the word turns into a completly meaningless cliche when used by germans). Dont forget the evil <s>Jews</s> Zionists who have learned nothing from the Holocaust (lol).
Capitalism and free markets are seen as a thread to the local culture, which is percieved in romantacly idealised, "völkisch" way. European nationalism ist the new politicaly correct substitue for german nationalism.
Its not that those people who protest against the war in Afghanistan really care what happends to the Afghani people. No, pacifism is germanie's new way to show the world how superior they are to everyone else, and how much they have "learned" from the holocaust. Basicly, the holocaust has allowed germany to reach a new level of morale pureness, because, you know, they have learned their lessons from it. Its pretty disgusting.
Its no surprise that the anti-globalization and pacifism slogans of neonazies and extreme leftists are indistinguishible from each other.
What a delicious irony that the leftist RAF terrorists claimed they were fighting a fashist reincarnation of the old nazi state , yet they were die hard antisemites and representatives of this national-leftist ideology, blaming the US imperialists and jews for imposing the moral guilt of the holocaust on the mostly innocent and peaceful german people.