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Nothing "Purist" -- Just Everything Hypocritical About Awarding Nobel "Peace" Prize to Promote Western Militarization

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Lundestad has apparently been a perennial favorite at the Minnesota Nobel Peace Forum and this year he brought his wife to accompany him. But he simply failed to answer why no one who wants to abolish or reduce militarization can get the prize. He has said nearly the opposite explaining how it is to be expected that the 2009 recipient Obama would be engaged in two wars as leader of the world's "superpower." So, how can the Prize continue to inspire peacemaking when it no longer is in keeping with Alfred Nobel's original intent but instead has been turned on its head to promote militarism and war?

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