• To say that force is sometimes neces­sary is not a call to cynicism – it is a recog­ni­tion of history, the imper­fec­tions of man and the limits of reason.
• Barack Obama • Offer­ing a defense of his wartime strat­egy while accept­ing his Nobel Peace Prize. If that’s not ironic, then we don’t know exactly what is. Really good speech, though. He handled a poten­tially bizarre situa­tion without a lot of trouble. source

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