Well, Souter... the reality is we made a deal for as much land as a certain number of folks could walk in a day, Penn got I think 12, athletes to walk around what became Pennsulvania in a day. However, after that, Quakers kept their treaties with scruplous care.
Spot, wars happen after a lot of prewar history, Hitler, for example, fed on the desire to punish Germany for WWI. Quakers and a number of communities of concience argued for fair treatment of parties after and between the wars.
The most recent agression against the US, though absoulty inhumanly crule and without heart, did not happen in a vacume as well, the US armed and trained the Afgan terrorists and have been in the buisness of droping bombs on places in that region ever since the last time we declared war, fifty years ago. We have been living by the sword for the past fifty years and without a single declaration of war. We reep what we sow, I choose to sow peace, do what your heart leads you to do, but don't demand I pull your broken body off the field as an obligation of your state, I likely will do it as a matter of my faith, but I object to you telling our Quaker children we owe you their lives for the wars you start and we stand aside from, what ever flag you fly.
Larry