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16 hours ago ago from PINKtank
On December 1, in front of a large audience of West Point cadets, Obama talked for 35 minutes about why the United States will commit an additional 30,000 soldiers to Afghanistan, to remain engaged until at least July 2011. His speech included repetitions of “security,” “terrorists” and “9/11.” This is our new strategy? With all due respect, why should we believe you, Mr. President? “I will promise you this, that if we have not gotten ...
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12 hours ago ago from Informed Comment
The world has noted the irony that President Barack Obama is delivering his acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize after launching an escalation of the Afghanistan war. Of course, the critique is a little misplaced, since the prize is for a specific policy success, not for being a pacifist. Still, Mr. Obama was clearly given the prize to encourage him in the direction of peace. It is the tragedy of the sole superpower that it is ...
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8 hours ago ago from Living the Prophetic Imperative
As we watch our President receive the Nobel Peace Prize just days after escalating the War in Afghanistan, I offer the vision of another President who resisted calls to escalate a war and took practical steps to realize his vision of peace. Unfortunately, John Kennedy's life was cut short and his vision remains unrealized. Further, his successors, from Johnson to Obama, have often turned away from his vision. The Beloved Community seems a ...
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20 hours ago ago from Audacity Of Hypocrisy
There is a bit of irony that just 10 days after announcing the deployment of 30,000 more American troops to Afghanistan, President Obama will accept the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize tomorrow in Oslo, Norway. The award, which the Nobel committee said was for Obama's extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples, comes as he presides over wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and faces an American public that ...
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1 hour, 9 minutes ago ago from OBAMAers Dot Com
I was disgusted when a president who is heading up wars in several countries won the Nobel peace prize. It was a totally undeserved, stupid, and farcical choice. So I found it interesting that Obama plans to talk about the war in Afghanistan during his acceptance speech as a means to peace. As stated in the article, this is truly Orwellian. The following article has embedded links that you can follow at ...
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Wartime US president to pick up his peace prize
4 hours ago ago from PopEater
OSLO, Norway -President Barack Obama has arrived in Oslo, where he will receive his Nobel Peace Prize medal later Thursday. Obama is in the unusual position of accepting the peace prize a week after he ordered 30,000 more U.S. troops to fight the war in Afghanistan. So his Nobel speech will explore his thinking about war, security and the pursuit of peace. He is expected to spell out the role of American leadership and the responsibilities of ...
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