Obama's Nobel Prize Speech

The use of force at times is necessary, but in the U.S’s cases enough is enough.  Obama using history  top back the war in Afganistan is a poor exucse.  As an historian will mention history repeating itself means lesson gets learnt.

What really got my goat about the speech is that war  is” some level an expression of human feelings”   That is load a crap.  War is the last tool of the diplomat  when everything else goes awry.


Personally I find it hubris that the U.S can win in Afganistan with the number of troops going into it. If we lookat history, Alexander the Great invaded it 300 BC and failed. It was invaded twice by the Mongols  and failed.  The British  invaded twice and failed  These wars were the First Anglo-Afghan War (1838–1842) and Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878–1880)  The Soviets  invaded  on Dec 24 1979 and failed. The Americans after all this thinking that they can do better, President Obama should read his history more carefully.In a previous post I told how you could win in Afganistan, the price would be way to high just to catch a bunch of terrorists.