Obama's Nobel Lecture

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSNl83fbJNI&feature=related

I found Obama's Nobel lecture to be an incredibly nuanced and complex dissertation on the very nature of war, peace, violence and justice. Does violence ever have a just cause? Can war be used nobly to stop crimes against humanity? Is there honor in using killing to end killing such as stopping the Nazi genocide? Yes, Gandhi and King were more absolute in their stands against the very nature of violence but if they truly had the means to end suffering through their own advocacy of violence would they? In the absence of truly possessing that means to call upon a powerful force to halt violence, we will not know. The President has that ability. Does his office and the power it possesses make him accountable in a different way? Perhaps that office is morally lacking when it sees suffering in Darfur or Uganda and does not use force to end it immediately. I do not know the answer to these questions nor do I know if our violence in Afghanistan or Germany or Japan et al is/was morally justified but I did give it much deeper consideration after hearing the President's speech.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/15/opinion/15brooks.html