war is peace
President Obama today accepted the Nobel Peace prize, a mere nine days after ordering 30,000 more U.S. troops into battle in Afghanistan.
What the heck are the Nobel committee members thinking?
In recognition of this contradiction, Obama delivered an impassioned defense of war in his acceptance speech, tempered with the need to fight war according to “rules of conduct” that reject torture.
Certainly he must be aware of the torture performed by his own administration at formerly secret locations in Poland, Romania and Lithuania. If Obama is so opposed to torture, why did he personally sign a directive to stop public disclosure of photographs of brave Americans torturing prisoners in those spots just a few weeks ago?
This recalls the day when the Nobel Peace prize was awarded to former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. How many Cambodians and Vietnamese died for Kissinger’s vision of “peace”?
And how many more Americans will die pursuing Obama’s vision of Afghanistan and who knows where else?