So Obama just won the Nobel Peace Prize, apparently for bringing hope to humanity. Would be interested to know what others, especially non-Americans, think of
this.
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Ibrahim Assem, apparently just a regular Joe from Cairo, interviewed by the NYT said "They are handing him the Nobel Peace Prize because he isn't George Bush." Kevin P.S You can help Barack win the Heisman Trophy by going here: http://promo.espn.go.com/...sts/theheismanvote/2009/
Si vis pacem, para bellum
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He certainly got my vote. Tebow who? And the guy from Cairo may be right.
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Well, I am not sure what to think of it. There were certainly a lot of worse suggestions (Berlusconi???)
The price often went out for encouragement rather then to honor previous merits. This obviously is one of these times. For that reason the price often went to people who no sensible men with afterthought would think of as worthy (Arafat anyone?). Obama will probably increase the troops in Afganistan and it is necessary to keep (or build) up a believable military threat towards Iran. This does not run conform with the mainstream views of the objective of the Peace Nobel price. Now he has it, Obama should draw as much political capital out of it as he can. Imho he could have capitalized on the situation by rejecting the Prize for the duration of his presidency. But thats another shoe... |
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Given that the Peace Prize committee has their own set of criteria and we will not know the full list of nominees until 2059, I cannot disagree with their
choice this year or any other year.
Lech Walesa remarked that the prize is sometimes awarded "strategically". It was true in his case. He had been arrested and Solidarity had been outlawed for about two years when he got the prize. It gave a morale boost to the underground Solidarity movement and may have had a great influence on their later gaining power in Poland. This movement set the stage for the wave of (insert adjective here) revolutions which swept Eastern Europe. It was definitely strategic to award it to Bishop Desmond Tutu ten years before apartheid was demolished in South Africa. Yassar Arafat got the prize six years after he had, as leader of the PLO, renounced terrorism and begun to work to establish the Palestinian state. I would say that the committee, again, was acting to encourage the push for peace. BTW, Arafat got 1/3 of the prize. In the three cases above and President Obama's case, their opponents have condemned the award. Note: I am Canadian. AFAIK, Lester B. Pearson is the only Canadian recipient and I am proud of him for his work.
"War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading" Thomas Hardy, "The Dynasts"
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