Posted by
Always To The Right on Saturday, October 10, 2009 4:30:46 PM
I’m not really surprised by the Nobel committee’s decision
to grant the Peace Price to Barack Obama. I assumed they would give it
to him at the earliest opportunity. I forgot the award had not been
given for this year. It would have been slightly better for their
credibility if the Nobel committee had waited until next year, but
perhaps they didn’t want to take the chance that current events would
make that impossible by the end of 2010. The kind of “peacemaking”
favored by the Nobel committee is the kind that usually gets innocent
people killed, and frequently ends in the kind of war that comes as an
even bigger surprise than Obama’s award.
Obama had been in office for less than two weeks before the Nobel
nominations were finalized, so his nomination was not based on anything
he had done as President. The Nobel Price long ago became a joke, and
an insult to the people who suffer under terror and tyranny around the
world, but I don’t think the committee just threw Obama the award
because he’s so wonderfully special,. . .
Barack Obama’s America, mortgaged to the hilt and several trillion
dollars beyond broke, with a stagnant economy trapped in government
amber, will no longer be such a nation. The Nobel committee is pleased
to reward him for that, because a muscular United States rocks a lot of
boats. The “international community” has never forgiven George W. Bush
for backing it into a corner over Iraq, and forcing the United Nations
to enforce its own resolutions. “Resolution” is harmless and exciting
when it’s a word spoken by important diplomats, and scribbled into
strongly-worded letters. It’s scary when backed up by forceful leaders
who take it seriously.