The difference between a Pacifism Prize and a Peace Prize

Lawrence O'Donnell to Presidential historian Michael Beschloss on Obama's Nobel (start at 13:42):

...this is not the Nobel Pacifism Prize. This is the Peace Prize that went to President Wilson after World War One. The expectation that you have to be a pacifist to get it, has not been historically correct.

O'Donnell makes a great point about the difference between peace and pacifism. Although I have great reservations about the Afghan strategy, I can't say I didn't know it was coming. Obama campaigned on it.

I also refuse to be brought in as an accomplice of the right wing, who are using this issue to try to split progressives and liberals.