Strobe Talbott: What President Obama should say in his Nobel Peace Prize Speech

President Obama will be receiving the world's most prestigious peace prize nine days after announcing his decision to escalate an increasingly unpopular war.  Brookings Institution President and Ploughshares Fund grantee Stobe Talbott suggests facing this irony “head-on”. He can do that by using the bully pulpit to explain why he must also use the big stick—that the violence breeding in renegade regions of Afghanistan and Pakistan threatens world peace to a degree that justifies—and, in his view, demands—the violence of coordinated international military action.  He, like Bush, has bet his presidency on a war, writes Talbott.  He needs to use every opportunity, including the one coming Thursday, to raise confidence that he will succeed where Bush failed—and that he has a powerful rationale for asking other nations to help.