[Peace-discuss] Nobel Committee, Strategic As Ever, Taps Obama for Peace Prize

[C. G. Estabrook]

Tom Lehrer said that political satire was dead after Henry Kissinger got the 
Nobel Peace Prize.

But this joke tops that.  At least Kissinger got it for *ending* a war in SE 
Asia. Obama's continuing and escalating a larger one in SW Asia.

The world's going to die laughing (if they don't die from American drones).

What's desperately needed are more domestic adversaries for Obama et al.

Robert Naiman wrote:
> Some initial commentary has called the award unprecedented and
> wondered why the committee would give President Obama the award when
> he "hasn't done anything yet." But anyone who thinks this award is
> unprecedented hasn't been paying attention. The Nobel Committee has a
> long history of praising "works in progress" that it wants to assist,
> like the downfall of apartheid. The Committee likes Obama's diplomatic
> moves on Iran and Afghanistan and wants to help shield Obama from his
> domestic adversaries.
> 
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/nobel-committee-strategic_b_314980.html
> 
> http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/10/9/82426/1566
> 
> http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/node/366
> 
> --
> Robert Naiman
> Just Foreign Policy
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