“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,” U.S. President Barack Obama said after he was awarded Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo December 10 “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.”

“Still, we are at war, and I am responsible for the deployment of thousands of young Americans to battle in a distant land,” stated U.S. President, adding “Some will kill. Some will be killed.”

Thus, he mentioned that came to Oslo “with an acute sense of the cost of armed conflict”, pointing out that force is “sometimes necessary”, The Los Angeles Times reports.

According to the daily, on the whole in his speech Obama touched upon two notions — “just war” and “just peace”.

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