27. Right -- That's the way the language and its use and misuse works.
Anti-war and peace would have the same meaning when used in that context. I have probably heard it a million times and never thought anything of it. Just this time it struck me as peculiar.
It is like a person complementing their host at the end of a party saying: "I enjoyed myself." You would think they would have stayed home to enjoy themselves and would have enjoyed the company of other people at the party.
This is hijacking the thread, so I won't respond to any more splitting hairs over word use.
Wanders off muttering to self: Who in their right mind would protest peace, don't we all want peace... are some people so angry that they have to have war to be happy? Who are those people? Didn't they have a happy childhood? Would anger management help them? ...
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