Month: December 2009

  • Obama to Nobel Committee: "Peace Doesn't Work; War Is the Answer"

     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.