December 11, 2009
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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, 2009President 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.
Comments (5)
well,, you can try it both ways i guess,,, but you need to stick to your guns once youve opened your mouth…
its all about the end game,, and the end game doesnt necessarily mean winning said war…
well just have to wait and see..
what concerns me,,,is when he will decide he needs to turn the military on the american people…
calderon did it to his people in mexico,,, i expect ears to do the same shortly,,, hell use a different excuse tho,, hahahahaha
Isn’t it interesting that Obama got the peace prize yet he seems to be promoting the war? Interesting. . .
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well,, i see ive already been here,,, new post,,, new post,,,
as far as afganistan,,, this is not a democrat or republican war,, this is a us war,,, there was one goal, i guess we could say, mission accomplished,,,
im not sure of where and why things are necessary,, and it is kind of a hidden goal,,,
we had to for some reason get the heroin moving along a different route,,,
i dont keep up with the whys and wheres,, but if im not mistaken at the onset i believe the heroin was moving thru france,,, this is unexceptable to the powers that be in the us,,, why,, i dont have a clue,, it would still get here…
similar to when we invaded noriega,,, their goods were moving thru cuba,, the us wanted it moved thru mexico… again,, why, i dont have a clue,,, it would obviously be easier to find smugglers in the gulf of mexico than in mexico itself,,, sure,, theres lots of area to cover,,and could be a difficult task,, but the area in mexico isnt that much smaller,, and we have a lot more bodies to count,,,, and check,,, hahahahaha lot more being an understatement…
with the news now coming out of mexico,, and has been for the last several years,, you would never know we got just what we were after,,,,
our fearless leaders work in mysterious ways behind their screen of smoke and mirrors…
i better stop before i get myself started,,, hahahahaha,,,
no,, i dont like ears,,, i didnt like jr,,, they are the same administration,, and all should be rounded up and put on trial for all the deaths that occurred on 911. that was just over the top…. and unnecessary…