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I hope I’m wrong
15 hours ago ago from Citizen Voice & Times
Tony White, CVT Guest Columnist By Tony White, Guest Columnist I hope I’m wrong. I have been an observer of the political history of this country for nearly fifty years. I have been especially intrigued with the US Military and the way it has been used and abused these many years by this nation’s politicians to influence the political world and to satisfy their desire to control it. I think it is ...
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Stop NATO December 10, 2009 Obama Doctrine: Eternal War For Imperfect Mankind Rick Rozoff President and commander-in-chief of the armed forces of the United States Barack Obama delivered his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance address in Oslo on December 10, which has immediately led to media discussion of an Obama Doctrine. With obligatory references to Martin Luther King, Jr. and Mohandas Gandhi (the second referred to only by ...
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4 hours ago ago from Robert Kyriakides\'s Weblog
Mr Obama was elected to the office of president of the United States just over a year ago and he assumed office, as is the way in America, at the end of January this year. He has been continuing the wars that his country, together with many other countries, are fighting in Iraq and in Afghanistan; it should be said that if Mr Obama withdrew American forces from these places American Allies would probably be the first to leave with an alacrity ...
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4 hours ago ago from MajimboKenya.com
President Obama On Winning the Nobel Peace Prize By BEN FELLER, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS OSLO, Norway — President Barack Obama evoked the cause of a just war on Thursday, accepting his Nobel Peace Prize just nine days after sending 30,000 more U.S. troops to war in Afghanistan but promising to use the prestigious prize to “reach for the world that ought to be.” Obama became the first sitting U.S. president in 90 years and the third ever ...
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Let us start with the most positive opinion Obama’s Finest Hour Max Boot 12.10.2009 5:26 PM I agree with Jackson Diehl that there was something missing from Obama’s Noble Peace Prize address : Obama could have used the speech to make clear to Iranians that the United States supports the cause of change in their country. Instead he settled, as he has before, for a passive construction: “We will bear ...
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16 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
By sending 30,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan, President Obama has made a tragic mistake that could define, and undermine, his entire presidency. But this mistake, which promises to prolong an impossible mission and take countless more Afghan and American lives, is only the most recent error in a war of choice that has from the beginning been not only impractical but also unjust. If we are going to end the Afghanistan and Iraq ...
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11 hours ago ago from PopEater
WASHINGTON -When Congress finally got its chance to weigh in on the war in Afghanistan, lawmakers grudgingly accepted what they didn't like about the Obama administration's planned escalation and moved on. Lawmakers had been complaining for three months that they were left out of the debate over the course of the faltering war. But when they got their crack this week at the generals and diplomats who manage President Barack Obama's new ...
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4 hours ago ago from Washington Post - U.S.
If any further evidence were needed of the distance between running for president and being president, it came Thursday in Oslo as President Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize. The politician who had sought the White House as the champion of the antiwar forces in his party spoke as the commander in chief, offering a principled defense of waging just wars. This Story The incongruity of a ...
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By Susan Davis Sarah Palin offered rare praise for President Barack Obama today when asked to assess his lecture in Oslo today on accepting the Nobel Peace Prize. I liked what he said, the former Alaska governor told USA Today in an interview as she wraps up a two-week publicity tour for her best-selling memoir, Going Rogue: An American Life. In fact, Palin suggested the president took a page out of her book when he talked about what it ...
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10 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
Following in the rhetorical wake of Barack Obama is like being the clean-up crew after the Imperial cavalry have passed. A disagreeable but necessary duty in the interests of public health. Here goes. B.O.: 'Just War' preconditions: "If it is waged as a last resort or in self-defense; if the force used is proportional; and if, whenever possible, civilians are spared from violence." The Afghan state did not attack the United States, nor ...
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