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

[Morton K. Brussel]

All you're saying is that the Nobel Peace Prize is a farce.

"Works in progress" include building up the military, bombing  
innocents, excusing Israel's atrocities, and repression, etc.. You  
seem to be excusing the Committee, and thereby Obama, for the latter's  
scurrilous acts (not words). So far his nice words have have been  
belied by both his actions and non-actions. Perhaps he's a wee bit  
"better", certainly more clever than Bush, but all this award does is  
put the label "peace" in an Orwellian context.

Such a "strategy" be damned! Hope remains eternal and evanescent with  
Obama it seems.

--mkb

On Oct 9, 2009, at 7:51 AM, 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
>
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