So, Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize. Some folk are throwing their arms up in the air at this one. The infamous question circling this seems to be "How is Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize and still shipping troops out to war?" Well, our President, aware of the buzz that his winning has created, has decided to speak on the situation. Here's a piece from MSNBC:
Newly enshrined among the world's great peacemakers, President Barack Obama offered a striking defense of war. Eleven months into his presidency, a fresh Obama doctrine. Evil must be vigorously opposed, he declared as he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on Thursday. At the same time, he made an impassioned case for building a "just and lasting peace."
"I face the world as it is, and cannot stand idle in the face of threats to the American people," Obama told his audience in Oslo's soaring City Hall. "For make no mistake: Evil does exist in the world."
Pronouncing himself humbled by such an honor so early in "my labors on the world stage," Obama nevertheless turned his Nobel moment into an unapologetic defense of armed intervention in times of self defense or moral necessity. The hawkish message was an inevitable nod to the controversy defining his selection: an American president, lauded for peace just as he escalates the long, costly war in Afghanistan.
Understand that the war in Iraq and the war in Afganistan are different, although war is war. What's your take on this?
(Source: MSNBC)
PeggyM.
I did find it a bit ironic that he was receiving this type of award during the war too. However, I think everyone seems to forget the fact that he walked into this war,and he's doing his best to fix it, he didn't start it. We don't really have a choice but to wait and see just how tactful this solution is. *keeping my fingers crossed*
Posted by: Rosie B | December 14, 2009 at 04:40 PM