North Korea do not game the system

I did not technically write this. President Obama did. It's his Nobel acceptance speech that I cut-up so the hidden meanings could leak through. It's bizzare, surreal, dreamlike, somewhat delirious, but seriously, seriously provocative. The only changes I made were to add punctuation and remove any outright senselessness. I didn't make any changes that seriously affect the (non)sense. It follows below:



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an acute sense of the idea that the 'isness' of man's present this: the belief that peace is desirable. believe that we must develop alternatives to violence, nuclear is best. about humanity. Peace entails intervention and complicity in oppression. This brings me care for the sick on a horrific scale. I am working with President Medvedev to no rules. Intransigence must be met with millions whose quiet must be our work, we are moving backwards. They recognized that if in preserving medicine they need to survive. It's evolution. Look War ended with jubilant crowds dismantling- in the midst two, not mere prisoners of fate. Our actions matter, that govern the use of force. Likewise, the fall of reason. I raise this fact is this: begin by acknowledging the hard truth that a door in light is what makes us different from those prevent the slaughter. Holy War can ever be a just war. I a different God. "Violence never brings permanent peace. Development for all and women just when it is easy, but when these are vital ingredients on their side. Let me we must strengthen UN and distant land. That human rights and dignity are advanced over that break rules and laws, I be a voice for those. No repressive regime can move down. I also know arms control and embrace yet, given the dizzying pace of nuclear weapons, and to seek our minds and our hearts as we choose the moral force of non-violence. I know to avoid such tragic choices, the rules of the road if we harden.
We see it in nations that are sacrificed. That is why NATO continues to be In the wake of such destruction. Not leave the task to grandchildren can some places this fear has led to because we seek to impose our will. Also incumbent upon all of us to insist eyes when those laws are flouted. Those open - if we dismiss inexcusable - insurgencies, and failed states; have increasingly trapped those who don't. The world before us, preached - they're why I prohibited it. Would be easier for human beings. World War, the cold forty three, other countries only when it meets certain preconditions: if cruelty and hardship of our soldiers; the seeds of future conflict are the founder of nature makes him moral. Was in the purpose of military action, extend beyond self, engulf an share. As the world grows smaller, will be faced with the choice between armed toward disarmament. Must embrace the role of that militaries indignation. But I also know that and great humility. We can reject that future. I refuse to accept despair as history. I refuse to accept own leaders or assemble - for if we want the Commander-in-Chief of a nation, this statement a reflexive suspicion of We. Have borne this burden not farmers. Prevent the spread is a centerpiece of architecture to keep the peace: acknowledge that must direct our effort, country is rightfully proud. Traditions of different, it is hard. I have spoken, must also others who understand that our common security and opportunity. For true peace is like that no matter how justified. war acts of courage and compassion inspire even better if other peoples' children problem: merely dawn of history, its morality of war. What I do know that development rarely takes root without isolates - and weakens because of the horror. Many more civilians are killed than where millions of its citizens going to war, we not have halted Hitler's armies. Negotiations cannot convince weapons. These extremists are not the water. The human rights are not protected. Peace is world.
Whatever mistakes come here with attacks. Still, we are at war, and I, a young protestor await the brutality. To think has long been a tactic. Combatant and civilian became Conventions. We lose ourselves when we compromise the these efforts succeeded. Yes, love that they that we all one form or another, appeared. Adhering to this law principle applies to those promotion of human unending chaos. There is genocide in Darfur; peace is unstable turn now to our effort a post-World War II - total wars in which the distinction between - The evolution that President Kennedy spoke, my foreign policy. And and soldiers of NATO countries - and other United States of America in the Middle East and power, and sometimes evil. Even those nuclear war. The same the first from peacekeeping and training to wage war. We are more than just War. Furthermore, America cannot insist that as codes of law sought to control civilians. I am as we. Confront the same vision, hard work, that drove drafters of the Universal Declaration who claim to respect international law. Makers of war dispute that if we do nothing, a better place. The non-violence practiced by men- not have to think that human nature is. Long ago Korea enabled democracy to take hold in you. Might think that we all basically want- may not have been practical or possible. But let me- like any head of state. Our conscience can lead to more costly to live out our lives with to be - war is the quiet dignity of reformers like Aung Sang. Have been jailed and beaten in the pursuit. No need for restraint.
States of America clerics and statesmen seek to regulate and persist in Western principles; closest friends are governments that for the chance honor them not as lasting peace. This concept, children and grandchildren, and that we can build a just the hope of living testimony to forsake them. Is hard to conceive of a cause of just war. Evolution of human institutions. the one rule that lies at the heart recorded. But they remind us that no staying power to complete this work, stages of a nation's development. And for the Catholic Church, security hangs in the secessionist movements. Firm to believe that the human condition can be perfected. It solves no social countries, America will always be family. The absence to these movements that hope and history is excused stockpiles. But it is North Korea do not game the system. Those moment of challenge that relations with those who violate international law by brutalizing institutions to prevent the world. In our capacity to exempt from mercy my nation, I cannot be guided by efforts of those who serve and the ambivalence of another World of every major religion. Is that we do not exist. Where by as nations arm themselves, some countries, the failure to uphold human rights nation. Nevertheless, I am a new century. We would have them do unto us. This also why the world must come together and bend this same ceremony.
Years ago the most profound issue- divorce from suffering; the unrecognized we have made our highest aspirations- that for all the when the world stands together as one. The same things; that we all hope not a decade into a the end, proliferation may increase the risk of catastrophe. Terrorism activists who call for swift aspirations that are universal. We arms race of hope can rot peace. But the purpose the instruments of war do have I do not bring one urgent example. Tough enough to the advent of the a world in the future reconciling these terrible wars have been fought, and atrocities committed. Those who look, the nature of peace is that we, her child, asunder, refugees amassed, and children scarred. Murder of innocents by the sense of possibility. We in the name of a role play balance. Agreements among nations. Strong institutions. Support for rights and dignity of every individual horror. Nixon's meeting human rights.
Investments in with Poland created space. Not just mothers facing punishing poverty still takes the time to think decades. For this of our souls. or nations educate their children victim to the temptations of pride, many countries, there is a disconnect by the false suggestion that unto others as leaders in my country and power; those without nuclear weapons will the opposite is true. Only when Europe, the Balkans, or in other places that we was not questioned; who seek peace cannot stand idly time. Third, a just peace includes not only walls. Commerce has stitched much of intentions, will at times fail to right the weak alike- must adhere the cost a sudden revolution in human nature- our values. I reject this choice.
But we must try as best we can of perestroika. Not let us live the final response to the ambiguities of the peace. And yet this truth must of the fortitude and foresight of bringing about history; the imperfections to standards of globalization, sometimes necessary is not a call to meeting these challenges will require rights. Cannot be about exhortation alone. At cannot argue with those who find these men, this old architecture is buckling under the weight military action today, no matter down. The other is a conflict imperatives of a just peace. We must imagination; an failed states like Somalia, where idea for which the destructive power of war to open societies. Pope John on issues of war as they please; choose their Nations, mechanisms to govern the waging of repressive regimes lacks the satisfying purity of from fear, but freedom wrongs before us. But we do We do not have to live in an of war. The total number of civilians who food, or clean of faith - for the heirs it in after the Woodrow Wilson received this Prize - America led and nations like Iran and oppression will always be their differences.
Such children cannot aspire the Norwegian Nobel Committee, citizens of civilians by must remain a standard "just war" emerged, suggesting coexist with another - boldly decades ago. And it will require us idealized world to these are organizations to relieve to teach we all confront difficult questions about how those regimes that break the rules must be denial of human aspirations. So even as we respect, think clearly about peace. First, in dealing with those nations -are served by the I did not acknowledge the considerable controversy faith in human progress - must always have a moral and strategic interest in binding the men and women around the world who don't, our action can appear them.
In the middle between the times, it must be coupled with painstaking diplomacy. Gave way to wars between nations at the beginning, and not or idealists - a tension that suggests Third Reich and the Axis powers, World War - and such pressure exists only wars. One of these wars is winding we are; to understand and peace then we lose what nothing weak -nothing passive - to global security will never waiver. Honor those ideals by upholding them Human Jews seems from poverty, and connected where citizens are denied the right to the prospect of war and lasting. King said at this occasion Schweitzer and King; Marshall and Mandela - my modern technology allows rallied around America, bearer in the conduct carrying out divine will, then place for his dreams. The pregnant mother, or keep the peace. deep ambivalence about in the creed and lives of joined by and human suffering. And sadly, their own government, or that your generous decision has generated. Of visible conflict. Only just that faith it will continue to be true. II was a conflict in which a vicious adversary that abides by others follow narrow pursuit of interests or for more than six decades. With the, we will not eradicate violent conflict; how we- intractability of depravation- who have distorted and defiled the great sacrifice is full of glory, whose bargain is clear: all mindful of what Martin Luther King said in describe themselves as realists more than the power of any other nation. The world together. Billions have us reach for the world that ought. Middle East, as the conflict between Arabs and other. These questions are not new. War, in political rights - it must encompass economic crippling status quo. al Qaeda's leaders to lay down their arms. To say that force is America, and citizens of the We have done so out of enlightened self-interest, her government has the courage to march their citizens.
No matter how callously surely helped restrict the most dangerous the Geneva Conventions. Where force is necessary, we of force. Even as only improved nuclear age, it became clear to to balance isolation and engagement; pressure and their examples alone. I face the world as torn asunder by tribal lines. Most dangerously, we stand together, the less likely we expressing devotion to country, to cause such. So part of face more drought, famine and mass displacement that who cast their ballots in the face of future intervention - no Somewhere today, in the here and now, have been lifted refuse to follow them ourselves. For when we exist in the world. A non-violent movement could governments fear. Outsized rage to murder innocents on intervention later. That is capacity and courage against a democracy, and our War. In kill. Some will be killed.
And so I sent a clear message to all about the of those senseless attacks and religion is used to justify the surprise that people fear the loss of what. Fight it.
The Nobel Committee recognized this peace based upon the inherent act unilaterally if necessary to defend my truths - that war is sometimes necessary, and different or pray to within America, there has long Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Distinguished Members of who believes regional peacekeeping, and conflict. At times, it even feels foreign to local cultures to all but those they help - to we see it in the broader public. Nothing naïve - on. Somewhere today, a be far more deserving of this honor been scarred by war. Inaction tears at their own people.
When yet I would of young there will be war, and of law have haltingly advanced. We are powerfully their religion. In must remember that it was not simply and defend of new threats. The in our lifetimes. We believe that their lives torture. That is why I just incompatible with the concept of of the last century, nations agreed to that guides us on our journey. They cherish about their particular identities, reduce America. Yet the world to defend ourselves and all nations from further - that brought stability to more practical, more attainable peace, based confronts him." So let will find the use than the defeat of to confront climate change. There modernity, it should come as no me today, a definitive solution to the problems. But there has been no Third source of our strength. That is For if we lose of human progress; that is expression of human feelings. Concretely, we of those men and women who acted so be the North Star creates new and first to kill - their race, their tribe, and perhaps most and speak of three ways. Soviet Union, It is missions more complex, America cannot with difficult questions about incapable of reaching within groups. So did philosophers, whom we fight. Change behavior, "Let us focus," he said, "on a set China, on a path be justified. Be remiss if of armed conflict-filled man”. At the justified. I make some measure of happiness and fulfillment for ourselves. That is a Red Cross, and a driving force behind protect the rights of an endless campaign to impose. But empowered dissidents throughout Eastern Europe.
There is reserve the right to accomplishments are slight. Was rarely observed. The capacity of human beings- reason, it is not merely scientists. And increasingly given way to wars within of the giants of places like the Balkans. Has promoted peace and prosperity from Germany, has helped underwrite global security world: I receive this honor years, such carnage would twice engulf witness. To or sectarian conflicts; the growth of own security cannot ignore the rejected League of Nations - an ordered the prison at Guantanamo Bay closed. And world may no longer shudder, the international community must mean something.
We can do that- for that is we will am, responsible for the deployment of thousands America, the world's sole military superpower. Which my own war, treaties to protect human rights, prevent sewn, economies are wrecked, civil societies torn became free. Did it finally find peace? America a warped view of promises human war whose violence and suffering is little scientific terrorism and piracy is joined. Education or a job that supports a cannot avert their might, these practical world, we are the Geneva about.
And yet, I do not believe history in the direction of justice. In self-defense; if the forced used of just war and the fight to defend. Surrounding my receipt of this prize, a stark choice between the believe. That but on a gradual when nations - acting individually or to recognize how similar a quarter century after the United States Senate the decisions that we make world stage. Compared to some years to come. The leaders must be consequences.
And the closer has never fought a war of peace. Let The ideals of liberty, self-determination, equality and continues to support beatings; to the hundreds of thousands who have with Mao appeared without fear. Pent up grievances fester, the medic, or replace one with the the responsibility, undercut the legitimacy of suppression of tribal and religious identity. Can we? Must God?
The cruelties of the marched silently through the streets of Iran. Will fuel more conflict for - some known, some obscure the core struggle of also say this: the security; it is also true head of state sworn the relationship between war and all nations- strong and one final to the bravery of Zimbabweans Crusades. re amply it as silly or naïve; if we very ideals that we the questions that must weigh on abroad to Oslo and Rome; to Ottawa arbitrary, and America's commitment of justice; those who toil in humanitarian and prosperity. Entire region. I believe that force can. For if you truly believe that you are world, recognized the need to confront Saddam Hussein, sought power and settled held accountable. Of force not only necessary, but morally human nature. We are fallible. We make mistakes, to protect that war is justified more complicated ones. Condemnation without discussion - can carry forward a ourselves to certain rules of conduct. And even Marshall Plan and a United speak freely or worship who care for their the wake of - including Norway - in an effort. It is telling that the leaders of these Walesa. Ronald Reagan's efforts still strive for dignity. We can understand that danger is rarely enough to achieve it. One in which we are More and more been lifted from poverty. Few countries. That is why from want. It is undoubtedly true and the cultural leveling of effort to defined.
Neither America's the divine that still stirs within each history who have received this prize - never trumpet it as world without all free people and free victor and vanquished alike that the world needed point about the use steps be?
To begin with, I believe that It is an award that speaks to is the fact that I they have shown in Afghanistan. But in So yes, in new ways about the notions when he invaded Kuwait - a consensus that people. For make no mistake: evil does to the American matter how justified. This becomes particularly important when Rights after the Second World died exceeded the number of soldiers who perished. Lead to violence.
We also know that up for the eternal 'oughtness' that forever so many years ago, As someone who stands here as a direct the cause. At times, this or disease - the manner in which tribes seek. For peace is not merely the absence that President Kennedy called for interests - nor the world's blood of our citizens and the strength of in concert - we must with us, and peace, and our effort to a hollow promise.
And yet all too sanctions without outreach- and with a clear mandate can play to The concept of a with deep gratitude that a cruel world still has. A is that, and then civilizations possible, civilians are spared from violence. For most will bear- no need to spare to enough proved inexhaustible, as of love has always been of ethnic tragedy. The soldier's between two nuclear superpowers, but two seemingly irreconcilable often, these words are ignored. In by their act alone.
This that America did not seek; nations to make clear. Continued expansion of our moral our challenge Americans to battle in a up new ways to kill one another, all responsible nations the unique culture and systematic rape this continent. And while it, I understand why war is not popular. But we honor those who return home incentives, so keep the peace. Somewhere today, in this in unstable regions for truly be lasting.
It was this insight with increased pressure indispensable. That is why that spark of be bound by a treaty it was simply a fact, like drought no simple formula here. Every circumstance, but the by famine are more diffuse, and/or East Asia. Those insistence that there is something irreducible cynicism - it is a recognition of those with nuclear weapons will work which threats blurred. In the span of thirty point because in many countries there is a religion. Is not we make difficult decisions about that we will have the will, or our arms. The service and sacrifice of our that is why society from within. And that is why helping. There will be times true in, And then there are like? What religion of Islam, and who attacked my civil and international institutions - not just treaties and declarations, then the words of Gandhi and King. But as a still reach for those ideals that will a new path unless it has to standards strengthens those who make it this truth. Through the a soldier sees he's outgunned but stands perfect for us to still. In part, this is because I of man and the limits lose our moral compass. Like generations have not just freedom I have reaffirmed America's commitment to abide by war. Itself is never glorious, and still, strive for justice. We can admit the been a tension between those who