Allen L Roland

Here are eight questions regarding President Obama ~ all of which were promised and have yet to be delivered. Peace implies action and Peace, without action, is a limp sail devoid of wind: President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize will get heavier and heavier until he changes rhetoric into action. There is no effective change without action. Action changes knowledge into wisdom and action always involves risk!

Gary Ruskin, Green Change, summarized eight Obama Peace promises which still remain empty rhetoric until action is taken.

PEACE IS NOT RHETORIC

1. Gary Ruskin, Green Change - "Did Obama bring peace to Iraq? No. He continues to station 124,000 U.S. troops there, with tens of thousands deployed perhaps indefinitely.
2. Did he bring peace to Afghanistan? No. He has escalated the war there, and is part responsible for the scores of civilian deaths that have occurred there. He has done this despite that most Americans now believe the Afghan war is "not worth fighting."
3. Has Obama done anything singular to stop the worldwide crisis of climate change? No. He has spent little or no political capital on the climate crisis, and still refuses to publicly commit the U.S. to strong actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. . .
4. Did he beat the swords of the giant U.S. defense budget into plowshares of peace? No. In fact, he will soon approve the largest defense bill in our nation's history.
5. Has he brought home the troops scattered across the world stationed to maintain our empire? No.
6. Has he stopped our nation's scandalous weapons trade? No. The U.S. has expanded its weapons trade. We now supply 2/3rds of the world's foreign armaments.
7. Did Obama sign the cluster munitions treaty to ban cluster bombs, because 98% of cluster bomb casualties are children? No. The U.S. has not signed the cluster munitions treaty.
8. Has Obama brought home the army of mercenaries we have stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan? No. He has expanded the ranks of these mercenaries to 250,000."

Perhaps we need to lighten up on Obama's Peace prize so here's James Carville's comments on SNL.Two minute Video Satire http://www.hulu.com/watch/101510/saturday-night-live-update-james-carville#http%3A%2F%

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Allen L Roland http://blogs.salon.com/0002255/2009/10/14.html

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Allen L Roland is a practicing psychotherapist, author and lecturer who also shares a daily political and social commentary on his weblog and website allenroland.com He also guest hosts a monthly national radio show TRUTHTALK on www.conscioustalk.net
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