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yeah well this is kinda awkward isn't it?
i still think that the main thing that obama did that got him the peace prize was to not be george w bush.
but the platform he ran on accepted the lunacy of the "war on terror" and argued that afghanistan was a "legitimate theater" of operations within it. all that did really was make a separation between the "good" war there and the other one in iraq. which doesn't seem to be quite as over as one would hope.
so i've been a bit baffled by the peace prize thing since it happened.
i mean it's not like something on the order of what's happening in afghanistan should be a surprise...it follows in a straight line from the positions he outlined during the campaign.
given all that, it's hardly surprising that he made the speech that he did.
what else could he have said, really?
it's not plausible that he could pretend that the escalation in afghanistan didn't just happen.
to justify that, he had to argue from the assumption that the "war on terror" is legitimate.
i don't buy that premise.
it's all kinda surreal.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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