United States President Barack Obama is a President of peace or war President? the answer is difficult to give.
Because there are two pieces of international concern, as Obama's stage, while he was on the stage, delivery is two diametrically opposite information. 12 the first day of the month, he was in New York, West of the rostrum, formally announced to the people of the United States, more troops to Afghanistan to prove that he is a war President. After more than a week, he hurried to participate in a day's climate summit, you will get to Oslo, in another rostrum, published entitled ' reflections of a Nobel Peace Prize, at that time, he transformed to become the largest world peace.
Obama may already convince myself, how to play this two distinct roles, and he as spring egos and lectures genius, the relationship between war and peace to vivid interpretations do. But Nobel Peace Prize Committee will be disappointed because they thought very deeply, and risked being criticized Obama for this risk grants top peace prize Crown, but no bundled live Obama in Afghanistan expanded war decisions.
From the human ideal, no war is contrary to the principles of peace noble, Nobel prize because there is no grant advocated nonviolence of Mahatma Gandhi, has also been criticized. But Nobel had to adhere to the highest non-war peace principles, because human beings to tit's history proves that war is not an effective solution to the problem. However, from the perspective of the United States, peace must rely on their opinion of war to achieve justice. United States country history and become a super power's history proves that war can create peace, you can also create prosperity, Obama clearly has inherited the tradition of the United States.
Obama can excuse that Afghanistan war unlike Iraq war, the Afghanistan war was the consensus of NATO and even the United Nations, therefore, it is a war of procedural justice. At the same time, Obama can excuse, he United States people's campaign promises, but also to the world of campaign promises, is the United States military withdrawal from Iraq war injustice, concentrate on winning the war in Afghanistan. Peace to pay a price, democracy and freedom also price, contain the Taliban comeback and bin Laden al Qaeda once again against the world, not only to support Afghanistan's Karzai elected Government. In order to prove his Afghanistan war and the Bush Administration's war in Afghanistan, the Obama administration in Afghanistan before the release of the new strategy, also disclosed the Bush team in order to promote the Iraq war, how to get bin Laden "a close shave", that cause the Afghanistan war "ACE", delay so far. Between the lines, Bush hit Afghanistan war is to pave the way for Iraq war, Obama continued to Afghanistan war is to counter terrorism, in order to more stable peace.
However, the Obama administration is very clear, more troops to Afghanistan, is the Obama administration first take active war policy, the success of this policy, the White House will bear full responsibility. Therefore, to appease the people United States, and in order to make the surge plan have the time and space play effect, Obama on the surge, it also announced that it will be in three to five years from the end of the war, to withdraw from Afghanistan. The problem is that Obama's "new Afghanistan war" explanation, as well as more than 30 000 people by sending more troops, does not guarantee that the victory of the United States in Afghanistan, even cannot guarantee that the United States in the next retreat.
All the experts are not opposed to, just from the military point of view, in the next 12 to 18 months to complete the us more than 30 000 people, does not mean that more troops to the coalition and Government troops in Afghanistan against the Taliban forces have absolute advantage, if it is not possible to destroy the Taliban's organic strength, not a victory. In other words, the United States must make NATO allies synchronous sending more troops, more war resources while persuade Pakistan on Abba border forces of Islamic radicalism, destroying mass action against the Taliban and Al Qaeda to recuperate and recruit "mountain". This is not enough support from the international standpoint, to persuade countries such as China and Russia, in different ways to participate in the war in Afghanistan, in order to achieve victory in the protection of military operations and the international community's generosity.
However, Western countries people have questioned whether this war, if the result is a supporting Afghanistan presidential election has shown that corruption, democratic institutions in Afghanistan the distortions in the soil, women still living in the shadow of the extreme Islamic law, then, why you want to play this game at the expense of major war? including the United States and other people of the Western world, as well as anti-war forces believe that a continuous expense of major wars, not necessarily a great fruit. Therefore, the requirements of NATO withdrawal of voice will become more and more, the Obama administration during the period of this pressures can withstand, or unknown.
More importantly, we all know that Afghanistan issue is not an isolated problem, it is a complex part of the Middle East, the Western civilization and part of the Islamic civilization in the conflict. Therefore, a simple military action to solve deep and kink in the Middle East conflict, cannot destroy Taliban and Al-Qaida resurgence of soil, which is this war is not the greatest.
In any case, Obama took office, is a war President, war is not he, but his troop surge plan has converted the focus, he has become an active "war President", and will be available in the input for a second term as an election.
The new Afghanistan war, stamp out including Nobel Peace Prize will, many illusions, proves that Obama is a representative of the United States national interests, on behalf of the President of the United States tradition.
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