There are lots of positive reactions from the right to Obama’s Oslo speech. Here are the comments from AEI scholar Steve Hayward from the Ashbrook Center’s blog “No Left Turns.”
“Maybe he should ask for the Churchill bust back”
Time to give Obama props when props are due. He really turned the
tables on those Norwegian bedwetters by embracing classical just war
theory and standing beside George W. Bush in noting that evil in the
world exists and will not yield to honeyed words or resolutions from
Brussells. Yes, there was still a lot of hooey-gooey stuff in the
speech, but it was a definite break from previous Obama speeches. It
seemed a clever way of acknowledging that not only did he not deserve
the Nobel Peace Prize, but that the audience didn’t deserve to have
their nihilist prejudices flattered. I suspect the real audience for
Obama’s remarks wasn’t the folks assembled in the room in Oslo. More
on this in a moment.
