OSLO: President United States Barrack Hussain Obama received the philanthropist Peace Prize here at a accolade distribution start on Thursday.
Speaking on the occasion, the U.S. President said, “I would be remiss if I did not pass the goodish disceptation that your generous decision has generated. In part, this is because I am at the beginning, and not the end, of my labors on the concern stage.”
He said the most profound issue surrounding his acknowledgement of this accolade is the fact that he is the Commander-in-Chief of a commonwealth in the midst of digit wars. One of these wars is winding down, he added.
He continued:
A decennium into a newborn century, (the) old architecture is buckling under the weight of newborn threats. The concern haw no individual shudder at the prospect of struggle between digit thermonuclear superpowers, but proliferation haw process the venture of catastrophe. Terrorism has daylong been a tactic, but modern profession allows a few small men with large anger to remove innocents on a horrific scale.
Moreover, wars between nations hit increasingly given way to wars within nations. The resurgence of social or sectarian conflicts; the growth of secessionist movements, insurgencies, and unsuccessful states; hit increasingly trapped civilians in unending chaos. In today's wars, some more civilians are killed than soldiers; the seeds of future offend are sewn, economies are wrecked, civil societies torn asunder, refugees amassed, and children scarred.
I face the concern as it is, and cannot defence idle in the face of threats to the American people.
A non-violent movement could not hit halted Hitler's armies. Negotiations cannot convince al-Qaida's body to place down their arms. To feature that obligate is sometimes necessary is not a call to cynicism - it is a acceptance of history; the imperfections of Negro and the limits of reason.
I raise this point because in some countries there is a deep ambivalency most expeditionary action today, no concern the cause. At times, this is joined by a reflexive suspicion of America, the world's sole expeditionary superpower.
Yet the concern staleness remember that it was not simply planetary institutions - not just treaties and declarations - that brought stability to a post-World War II world. Whatever mistakes we hit made, the plain fact is this: the United States of America has helped underwrite orbicular security for more than six decades with the blood of our citizens and the strength of our arms.
So yes, the instruments of struggle do hit a role to endeavor in preserving the peace. And still this actuality staleness coexist with another - that no concern how justified, struggle promises manlike tragedy. The soldier's spirit and sacrifice is full of glory, expressing devotion to country, to drive and to comrades in arms. But struggle itself is never glorious, and we staleness never trumpet it as such.
I conceive that every nations - strong and weak same - staleness adhere to standards that govern the ingest of force.
Furthermore, America cannot insist that others follow the rules of the road if we respond to follow them ourselves. For when we don't, our action crapper appear arbitrary, and shot the legitimacy of future participation - no concern how justified.
I conceive that obligate crapper be justified on humanitarian grounds, as it was in the Balkans, or in other places that hit been scarred by war. Inaction tears at our conscience and crapper lead to more expensive participation later. That is ground every answerable nations staleness embrace the role that militaries with a country mandate crapper endeavor to keep the peace.
America's dedication to orbicular security module never waiver. But in a concern in which threats are more diffuse, and missions more complex, America cannot act alone. This is genuine in Afghanistan. This is genuine in unsuccessful states same Somalia, where terrorism and robbery is joined by deficiency and manlike suffering. And sadly, it module continue to be genuine in unstable regions for years to come.
The body and soldiers of NATO countries - and other friends and allies - demonstrate this actuality through the capacity and spirit they hit shown in Afghanistan. But in some countries, there is a disparity between the efforts of those who serve and the ambivalency of the broader public. I see ground struggle is not popular. But I also know this: the belief that pact is desirable is rarely enough to achieve it. Peace requires responsibility. Peace entails sacrifice. That is ground NATO continues to be indispensable. That is ground we staleness alter UN and regional peacekeeping, and not yield the duty to a few countries.
Sanctions staleness exact a real price. Intransigence staleness be met with increased pressure and much pressure exists only when the concern stands unitedly as one.
I am sworn to upholding this treaty. It is a ornament of my foreign policy. And I am working with President Medvedev to reduce America and Russia's thermonuclear stockpiles.
it is also incumbent upon every of us to insist that nations same Persia and North peninsula do not mettlesome the system. Those who claim to respect planetary accumulation cannot avert their eyes when those laws are flouted. Those who tending for their possess security cannot cut the danger of an blazonry race in the Middle East or East Asia. Those who seek pact cannot defence idly by as nations limb themselves for thermonuclear war.
The same principle applies to those who break planetary accumulation by brutalizing their possess people. When there is kill in Darfur; systematic ravishment in Congo; or repression in Burma, there staleness be consequences. And the closer we defence together, the inferior likely we module be visaged with the choice between armed participation and complicity in oppression.
America module ever be a vocalise for those aspirations that are universal. We module assume witness to the quiet dignity of reformers same Aung Sang Suu Kyi; to the bravery of Zimbabweans who cast their ballots in the face of beatings; to the hundreds of thousands who hit marched silently through the streets of Iran. It is telling that the body of these governments fear the aspirations of their possess people more than the power of any other nation. And it is the responsibility of every liberated people and liberated nations to make country to these movements that wish and history are on their side
the promotion of manlike rights cannot be most suasion alone. At times, it staleness be coupled with painstaking diplomacy. I know that engagement with restrictive regimes lacks the substantial purity of indignation. But I also know that sanctions without outreach, and condemnation without discussion crapper circularize forward a crippling status quo. No restrictive regime crapper advise down a newborn path unless it has the choice of an open door.
the concern staleness become unitedly to confront climate change. There is little scientific dispute that if we do nothing, we module face more drought, deficiency and mass displacement that module fuel more offend for decades. For this reason, it is not but scientists and activists who call for swift and forceful action - it is expeditionary body in my country and others who see that our common security hangs in the balance.
Most dangerously, we see it in the way that belief is used to justify the remove of innocents by those who hit unshapely and defiled the great belief of Islam, and who attacked my country from Afghanistan.
Such a warped view of belief is not just clashing with the concept of peace, but the determine of faith - for the digit rule that lies at the hunch of every major belief is that we do unto others as we would hit them do unto us.
Speaking on the occasion, the U.S. President said, “I would be remiss if I did not pass the goodish disceptation that your generous decision has generated. In part, this is because I am at the beginning, and not the end, of my labors on the concern stage.”
He said the most profound issue surrounding his acknowledgement of this accolade is the fact that he is the Commander-in-Chief of a commonwealth in the midst of digit wars. One of these wars is winding down, he added.
He continued:
A decennium into a newborn century, (the) old architecture is buckling under the weight of newborn threats. The concern haw no individual shudder at the prospect of struggle between digit thermonuclear superpowers, but proliferation haw process the venture of catastrophe. Terrorism has daylong been a tactic, but modern profession allows a few small men with large anger to remove innocents on a horrific scale.
Moreover, wars between nations hit increasingly given way to wars within nations. The resurgence of social or sectarian conflicts; the growth of secessionist movements, insurgencies, and unsuccessful states; hit increasingly trapped civilians in unending chaos. In today's wars, some more civilians are killed than soldiers; the seeds of future offend are sewn, economies are wrecked, civil societies torn asunder, refugees amassed, and children scarred.
I face the concern as it is, and cannot defence idle in the face of threats to the American people.
A non-violent movement could not hit halted Hitler's armies. Negotiations cannot convince al-Qaida's body to place down their arms. To feature that obligate is sometimes necessary is not a call to cynicism - it is a acceptance of history; the imperfections of Negro and the limits of reason.
I raise this point because in some countries there is a deep ambivalency most expeditionary action today, no concern the cause. At times, this is joined by a reflexive suspicion of America, the world's sole expeditionary superpower.
Yet the concern staleness remember that it was not simply planetary institutions - not just treaties and declarations - that brought stability to a post-World War II world. Whatever mistakes we hit made, the plain fact is this: the United States of America has helped underwrite orbicular security for more than six decades with the blood of our citizens and the strength of our arms.
So yes, the instruments of struggle do hit a role to endeavor in preserving the peace. And still this actuality staleness coexist with another - that no concern how justified, struggle promises manlike tragedy. The soldier's spirit and sacrifice is full of glory, expressing devotion to country, to drive and to comrades in arms. But struggle itself is never glorious, and we staleness never trumpet it as such.
I conceive that every nations - strong and weak same - staleness adhere to standards that govern the ingest of force.
Furthermore, America cannot insist that others follow the rules of the road if we respond to follow them ourselves. For when we don't, our action crapper appear arbitrary, and shot the legitimacy of future participation - no concern how justified.
I conceive that obligate crapper be justified on humanitarian grounds, as it was in the Balkans, or in other places that hit been scarred by war. Inaction tears at our conscience and crapper lead to more expensive participation later. That is ground every answerable nations staleness embrace the role that militaries with a country mandate crapper endeavor to keep the peace.
America's dedication to orbicular security module never waiver. But in a concern in which threats are more diffuse, and missions more complex, America cannot act alone. This is genuine in Afghanistan. This is genuine in unsuccessful states same Somalia, where terrorism and robbery is joined by deficiency and manlike suffering. And sadly, it module continue to be genuine in unstable regions for years to come.
The body and soldiers of NATO countries - and other friends and allies - demonstrate this actuality through the capacity and spirit they hit shown in Afghanistan. But in some countries, there is a disparity between the efforts of those who serve and the ambivalency of the broader public. I see ground struggle is not popular. But I also know this: the belief that pact is desirable is rarely enough to achieve it. Peace requires responsibility. Peace entails sacrifice. That is ground NATO continues to be indispensable. That is ground we staleness alter UN and regional peacekeeping, and not yield the duty to a few countries.
Sanctions staleness exact a real price. Intransigence staleness be met with increased pressure and much pressure exists only when the concern stands unitedly as one.
I am sworn to upholding this treaty. It is a ornament of my foreign policy. And I am working with President Medvedev to reduce America and Russia's thermonuclear stockpiles.
it is also incumbent upon every of us to insist that nations same Persia and North peninsula do not mettlesome the system. Those who claim to respect planetary accumulation cannot avert their eyes when those laws are flouted. Those who tending for their possess security cannot cut the danger of an blazonry race in the Middle East or East Asia. Those who seek pact cannot defence idly by as nations limb themselves for thermonuclear war.
The same principle applies to those who break planetary accumulation by brutalizing their possess people. When there is kill in Darfur; systematic ravishment in Congo; or repression in Burma, there staleness be consequences. And the closer we defence together, the inferior likely we module be visaged with the choice between armed participation and complicity in oppression.
America module ever be a vocalise for those aspirations that are universal. We module assume witness to the quiet dignity of reformers same Aung Sang Suu Kyi; to the bravery of Zimbabweans who cast their ballots in the face of beatings; to the hundreds of thousands who hit marched silently through the streets of Iran. It is telling that the body of these governments fear the aspirations of their possess people more than the power of any other nation. And it is the responsibility of every liberated people and liberated nations to make country to these movements that wish and history are on their side
the promotion of manlike rights cannot be most suasion alone. At times, it staleness be coupled with painstaking diplomacy. I know that engagement with restrictive regimes lacks the substantial purity of indignation. But I also know that sanctions without outreach, and condemnation without discussion crapper circularize forward a crippling status quo. No restrictive regime crapper advise down a newborn path unless it has the choice of an open door.
the concern staleness become unitedly to confront climate change. There is little scientific dispute that if we do nothing, we module face more drought, deficiency and mass displacement that module fuel more offend for decades. For this reason, it is not but scientists and activists who call for swift and forceful action - it is expeditionary body in my country and others who see that our common security hangs in the balance.
Most dangerously, we see it in the way that belief is used to justify the remove of innocents by those who hit unshapely and defiled the great belief of Islam, and who attacked my country from Afghanistan.
Such a warped view of belief is not just clashing with the concept of peace, but the determine of faith - for the digit rule that lies at the hunch of every major belief is that we do unto others as we would hit them do unto us.
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