Dear President Obama,<\/p>\n
You should return the Nobel Peace Prize. I now believe that novel “1984” is true. “War is Peace” – that was your message. You must have a hard time sleeping Mr Bush. Woops I get confused. Who is in the white house.<\/p>\n
You spoke of “the world as it is” and threw a cloak of justification over the grisly escalation in Afghanistan by insisting that “war is sometimes necessary” – but generalities do nothing to mitigate the horrors of war being endured by others.<\/p>\n
You gave the world a pro-war speech. The context instantly turned the speech’s insights into flackery for more war.<\/p>\n
Your general who is running the US war effort in Afghanistan spoke to a Congressional committee in Washington about your recent pledge to begin withdrawal of US troops in July 2011. “I don’t believe that is a deadline at all,” Stanley McChrystal said.<\/p>\n
Actual policy always, in the real world, profoundly trumps even the best rhetoric.<\/p>\n
War is not peace. It never has been. It never will be.<\/p>\n
You had the chance to be great. But your are not. You are the Washington consesus in person. A company flack.<\/p>\n
Return the Nobel. Let them give it to someone who deserves it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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