Barack Obama who received the Nobel peace prize, is now the President at war longer than any of his predecessors
When the Nobel peace committee presented US President Barack Obama the
Peace Prize, just one year into his first term, critics thought it was a
premature decision. In fact, Mr. Obama himself acknowledged it in his acceptance speech.
"Perhaps the most profound issue surrounding my receipt of this prize
is the fact that I am the Commander-in-Chief of a nation in the midst of
two wars," he said.
Way back in 2001, U.S. troops were fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Both were started by his predecessor George W. Bush. The U.S. invaded
Afghanistan immediately after September 11. And the reason — the Taliban
refused to hand over Osama Bin Laden and other al-Qaeda leaders.
Three years later, the U.S. and the U.K. attacked Iraq with the claim
that Baghdad was manufacturing weapons of mass destruction (WMD). The
Iraq war II had three major casualities: Iraq's Ba'ath government
collapsed, the country’s President Saddam Hussein was hanged and the
Republicans failed to put their man back in the White House.
But today, at the end of Mr. Obama's presidency, U.S. troopers are still
fighting the Bush-era battlegrounds of Iraq and Afghanistan, along with
the newly opened fronts in Syria, Jordan and Turkey. This are in
addition to one off military strikes carried out in Pakistan, Cameroon and Somalia.
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