Only a rightwing nut could make the desire for peace look like a character flaw.
Clear differences in meaning are hardly, it seems, in your ken.
"desire for peace" is very different from avoiding confronting evil.
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
John Stuart Mill
How many years were you in the military?