Who Should Win the Nobel Peace Prize?

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🗓️ 11 November 2019

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They’ve saved the free world more than once. And they’re on the job preserving the peace right now. When it comes to making the world a more secure place for good and decent people everywhere, this one group deserves the bulk of the credit. Who is this group, and how can we ever thank them? Pete Hegseth, U.S. Army Major, has the answer.

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0:00.0	If the Nobel Peace Prize was given out to people who truly made the world a more peaceful place,
0:05.4	one group would win every year.
0:08.4	The United States military.
0:10.4	The US Army, Air Force, Navy, and Marines.
0:14.7	Now you may be thinking, how can you award a peace prize to a group whose purpose is to fight wars?
0:21.0	Fair question. I'll tell you how.
0:23.6	Because the reason we are free, the reason anyone on Earth today is free,
0:27.5	is ultimately thanks to the US military.
0:30.5	They saved the free world from German domination in the first World War.
0:34.1	They saved the free world from Japanese and German fascism in the second World War.
0:38.9	They saved the free world from communism in the Cold War.
0:42.3	And they're saving it now.
0:44.8	That might sound like an exaggeration, but only because they have protected us for so long.
0:51.3	National security, the protection of citizens from an external foe, is not a given.
0:56.7	Far from it.
0:57.9	It's the product of the hard work of American military men and women who stand guard 24 hours a day,
1:03.8	365 days a year, every year.
1:07.6	And they've been doing so for as long as any of us can remember.
1:11.7	The First World War, the Second World War, the Cold War, the Korean War, both Iraq Wars, the Afghan War.
1:20.0	These were all conflicts that the US tried to avoid, but they were wars that the US fought not only for itself,
1:27.1	but for good, decent, and free people everywhere.
1:31.1	Where the US military was not ultimately victorious, the Vietnam War,
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