Peace Betrayed?

In his highly controversial 1988 book Peace and Revolution, political scientist Guenter Lewy charged that since the Vietnam era the four major American pacifist organizations of American Friends Service Committee, Fellowship of Reconciliation, War Resisters League, and Women's International League for Peace and Freedom -have moved from singlehanded devotion to the principles of nonviolence and reconciliation to a defense of 'the moral legitimacy of armed struggle and guerrilla warfare.'