[Peace-discuss] Treating Obama's remarks with the contempt they deserve

[C. G. Estabrook]

	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.

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