Peace Doesn’t Work, Obama Informs Nobel Committee
       Accepts Peace Prize by Defending Merits of War
       by Jason Ditz, December 10, 2009

President Barack Obama accepted his Nobel Peace Prize today, and as
expected he acknowledged that even he isn’t clear why he got the prize,
noting that there were millions of people more deserving.

But President Obama’s “acceptance speech” was far from an expression of
contrition, spending most of the speech defending his War in
Afghanistan as an inherently just war, and rambling on about all the
other recent American wars and his ostensible justifications of them.

Then, in what must’ve been one of the least humble and least
appropriate speeches ever given before the Nobel Committee, Obama
declared non-violence to be impractical and insisted that the “limits
of reason” meant that the American military would continue to have to
be used for “moral” reasons.

In extolling the virtues of war while accepting what was supposed to be
a prize for radical advocates of peace, President Obama had what could
only be called one of the quintessential jerkass moments of American
history, an embarrassing exhortation to the advocates of peace to
accept violence as the one true way of solving the world’s problems.