Louise O. Fresco 13

Amerikaanse bommentapijt op Noord Vietnam

De rechtvaardiging van westers geweld om 'vrede op aarde' te bewerkstelligen ontleent professor Fresco aan het volgende: 'uiteindelijk kunnen we niet ontkennen dat wij onze vrede en bijna geweldvrije levens danken aan die jonge geallieerde soldaten die destijds Nederland hebben bevrijd.'

Zie: http://weblogs.nrc.nl/fresco/2009/12/22/vrede-op-aarde-%E2%80%93-dankzij-geweld/

Laurie L. Calhoun is Research Fellow at the Independent Institute and Executive Editor of Transition at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University.

Over het argument dat Fresco gebruikt schrijft ze:

Barack Obama’s Doublespeak “Peace” Speech

December 18, 2009
Laurie L. Calhoun

In accepting the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, Barack Obama recited the tried and true sophism parroted by U.S. presidents since 1945 in defending their wars: The Third Reich had to be defeated. As though Afghanistan bore any more resemblance to Germany than did North Vietnam. As though sending ever more U.S. troops to kill ever more innocent Afghan citizens might have any more tangible effect than to incite the ire of the very people alleged to be quietly conspiring to attack the United States again.

http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/2009/12/obama_23.html