オバマ米大統領の
ノーベル平和賞演説ですが,米国の軍最高司令官のスピーチとして印象に残ったのは,
I'm responsible for the deployment of thousands of young Americans to battle in a distant land. Some will kill, and some will be killed. And so I come here with an acute sense of the costs of armed conflict
これかな.
日本で,自衛隊を海外派兵したがっている「政治家」に,このリアリティはあるだろうか.
しかし,
In today's wars, many more civilians are killed than soldiers; the seeds of future conflict are sown, economies are wrecked, civil societies torn asunder, refugees amassed, children scarred.
と語り,それでも派兵する理屈が続く...そして人権を語り,最後は,
Clear-eyed, we can understand that there will be war, and still strive for peace.
か...