Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Daniel C. Maguire: "Opportunity Lost: Obama in Oslo" - Consortium News

Editor Robert Parry's Note: In his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech in Oslo, President Barack Obama downplayed the bloodshed caused by scores of U.S. military interventions and covert operations over the past six decades – and sought to justify his own escalation of the eight-year-old war in Afghanistan.

In this guest essay, Daniel C. Maguire, a Professor of Ethics at Marquette University, found Obama’s effort disappointing and disingenuous: ...

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