President Obama, like you all know, recently was awarded the Nobel World Peace Prize, but also he recently sent fourty thousand troops across seas to places like Afganistan. Obviously it is an award that cannot be revoked.
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Many people when it was awarded thought he was unfitting. At the time I thought he was almost deserving of the peace prize, due to his 'possibility of change' (much like his campaign slogan) but what happened? he sent 40,000 soldiers, all people who have families, loved ones, kids, into the dangerous and possibly lethal areas over seas. How is this peace? Is it an attempt to create peace by causing more war? You can call me a flower child for saying this, but I do not agree with this.
I am not necessarily anti-war though. I do believe in 'affirmative action' in this sense. War is sometimes the only effective way in changing ones opinions on ideas. But that doesn't mean it is peace. War and Peace are not interchangable. They have near opposite meanings. Maybe War can someday cause peace, but when you cause war, you are not creating peace at the time of war. Skepticism is not enough justification for peace, in my opinion.
I am not the biggest political person, but when I see things like this that are almost contradictery on what they described themselves as makes me angry. It seems that people are against the war (well during the Bush Presidency the media sure made it seems so) and how is change sending more troops over? Maybe this is wrong, but when someone was explaining President Obama's plan in Iraq is was like 'we will just leave in like a year and say work it out.' I saw that as change. Sending 40,000 troops over is not change. Obviously he is *attempting* to end the war, but by peaceful standards, this is not.
I guess I may someday stand corrected. To be honest, I cannot predict the future. So we will need to wait and see. We will need to wait and see if this prodigy president will be able to lead us out of recession, oil controversies, and a war overseas that was thrust upon him. I am forced to follow the president in the type of siciety we live in, so I will do this intentionally for the purpose of patriotism.
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