It also has an interest in seeing a country that remains infested with nuclear weapons peaceful and non-belligerent.
The non-belligerent cop, Patrolman St. Amand, next took the stand — pale, puffy, eyeglassed, somewhat bald, more like a bookkeeper than a policeman.
And in the middle east, hopes that such splinter groups will grow into non-belligerent stakeholders once they've become responsible for controlling populations and territory are often disappointed.
Franklin D. Roosevelt of the still non-belligerent United States, after four days of conferences aboard warships anchored at Placentia Bay, off the coast of Newfoundland.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon's SIOP, Single Integrated Operational Plan – a doomsday scenario that echoed Dr Strangelove's orgiastic Götterdämmerung – would have hurled 5,500 nuclear weapons against a thousand targets, including ones in non-belligerent states such as Albania and China.
They wanted to galvanise popular fervour at home and send conscript armies to war with a spring in their step, influence opinion in America (overwhelmingly the most important non-belligerent until it entered the war in 1917) and secure the approval of posterity.
"Belligerents who also happen to be U.S. citizens do not enjoy immunity where non-citizen belligerents are valid military objectives," said Jeh C. Johnson, the Defense Department general counsel, in a speech at Yale Law School.
Yet, if the military trappings are too belligerent, the non-military side of the intervention has been too weak.
Striking up a debate with someone who welcomes discussion, chooses to proselytize, or is belligerent towards non-Christians is very different from picking a fight with someone whose values you don't happen to agree with.
Cecily McCall wrote: "Jam-making was constructive and non-militant … for the belligerent, what could be more satisfying than fiercely stirring cauldrons of boiling jam and feeling that every pound was one step closer to defeating Hitler".
