Many throughout the world were highly stunned when President Obama was selected for the Nobel Peace Prize since he had just taken office and had scant time to deal with global issues.

Considering the foregoing, it would seem that Obama should have delivered a speech emphasizing a sturdy global effort to make the achievement of peace a front burner imperative.  Instead what he delivered was a speech defending the concept of "just wars."

Somewhere in the great beyond George Orwell could be expected to exclaim, "This is what '1984' was all about.  Peace and war are used interchangeably."  In this instance the "1984" concept elucidated so cleverly by Orwell was exemplified by Obama in his effort to sell the concept of "just wars" as means of sustaining peace.

The speech regrettably carried the familiar ring of the New World Order and President George Herbert Walker Bush justifying the Gulf War when Mikhail Gorbachev and others in the world community sought diplomacy short of war.