In Obama Speech, War and Peace

Elizabeth Williamson U.S. President Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech Thursday will focus on the discordant note struck by a war president receiving the world's highest honor for peacemaking, senior administration officials say. Mr. Obama has drafted the speech himself, beginning the day after he announced an escalating of the Afghanistan war last week. He will address the juxtaposition of the two very different events, as well as critics who say a president newly in office and pursuing two wars doesn't deserve the prize. "It is a very compelling context: When do you commit men and women to war?" ... Leer más