New Delhi: As President Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on Thursday, the bouquets poured in but so did the brickbats for preserving peace in Oslo came at a price.
Over $60 million worth of security preparations were in place and more than 2,000 Norwegian Police officers were on the streets - along with snipers, canine patrols, and helicopters - and Oslo also saw a torchlight parade thousands took part in a torchlight parade in Oslo to celebrate his nuclear disarmament efforts.
However, in another part of the Norweign capital and in New York, thousands shouted slogans against Obama for justifying the war in Afghanistan. They were carrying banners demanding the US get out of Afghanistan, put an end to controlled arms trade, pursue nuclear disarmament and pressure the Israeli government to put an the end to settlements on the West Bank.
President Obama, while accepting the Nobel Prize for Peace, had defended the right of the United States to wage "just wars" like the one in Afghanistan.
Obama had in his acceptance speech said "war is sometimes necessary, and war is at some level an expression of human feelings".
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