"Violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem. It merely creates new and more complicated ones." So spoke Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in his 1964 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech.

Contrast that with President Barack Obama's speech last month in Oslo, where he received the Nobel Peace Prize. After citing the above excerpt from King’s acceptance speech, he paid King due respect: "As someone who stands here as a direct consequence of King's life's work," Obama said, "I am living testimony to the moral force of nonviolence. I know there is nothing weak, nothing passive, nothing naive in the creed and lives of Gandhi and King." But then Obama branded both men as ineffectual and naive. Nonviolence, he said, could "not have halted Hitlers armies" or convinced "al-Qaida's leaders to lay down their arms." He concluded: "Instruments of war do have a role to play in preserving the peace."

If nonviolence could not have halted Hitler's armies, then, in effect, what Obama is saying, is that any violent actions taken by al-Qaida (assuming they exist) are completely justified. According to Mr. Obama, there is no other way to stop the mass murder, torture and destruction brought upon the world by the The United States of America.