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absurd decision on Obama makes a mockery of the Nobel peace prize

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Michael Binyon

The award of this year’s Nobel peace prize to President Obama will be met with widespread incredulity, consternation in many capitals and probably deep embarrassment by the President himself.

Rarely has an award had such an obvious political and partisan intent. It was clearly seen by the Norwegian Nobel committee as a way of expressing European gratitude for an end to the Bush Administration, approval for the election of America’s first black president and hope that Washington will honour its promise to re-engage with the world.

Instead, the prize risks looking preposterous in its claims, patronising in its intentions and demeaning in its attempt to build up a man who has barely begun his period in office, let alone achieved any tangible outcome for peace.

The pretext for the prize was Mr Obama’s decision to “strengthen international diplomacy and co-operation between peoples”. Many people will point out that, while the President has indeed promised to “reset” relations with Russia and offer a fresh start to relations with the Muslim world, there is little so far to show for his fine words.

East-West relations are little better than they were six months ago, and any change is probably due largely to the global economic downturn; and America’s vaunted determination to re-engage with the Muslim world has failed to make any concrete progress towards ending the conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians.

There is a further irony in offering a peace prize to a president whose principal preoccupation at the moment is when and how to expand the war in Afghanistan.

The spectacle of Mr Obama mounting the podium in Oslo to accept a prize that once went to Nelson Mandela, Aung San Suu Kyi and Mother Theresa would be all the more absurd if it follows a White House decision to send up to 40,000 more US troops to Afghanistan. However just such a war may be deemed in Western eyes, Muslims would not be the only group to complain that peace is hardly compatible with an escalation in hostilities.

The Nobel committee has made controversial awards before. Some have appeared to reward hope rather than achievement: the 1976 prize for the two peace campaigners in Northern Ireland, Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan, was clearly intended to send a signal to the two battling communities in Ulster. But the political influence of the two winners turned out, sadly, to be negligible.

In the Middle East, the award to Menachem Begin of Israel and Anwar Sadat of Egypt in 1978 also looks, in retrospect, as naive as the later award to Yassir Arafat, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin — although it could be argued that both the Camp David and Oslo accords, while not bringing peace, were at least attempts to break the deadlock.

Mr Obama’s prize is more likely, however, to be compared with the most contentious prize of all: the 1973 prize to Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho for their negotiations to end the Vietnam war. Dr Kissinger was branded a warmonger for his support for the bombing campaign in Cambodia; and the Vietnamese negotiator was subsequently seen as a liar whose government never intended to honour a peace deal but was waiting for the moment to attack South Vietnam.

Mr Obama becomes the third sitting US President to receive the prize. The committee said today that he had “captured the world’s attention”. It is certainly true that his energy and aspirations have dazzled many of his supporters. Sadly, it seems they have so bedazzled the Norwegians that they can no longer separate hopes from achievement. The achievements of all previous winners have been diminished.



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Reagan brought down the Societ Union and didn't get a peace prize but this joker, Obama, does absolutely nothing other than apologize for America every chance he gets, gives our enemies everything they want and ruins the economy of America even more and they give him one. This is completely insane!

To imagine many of the peace prize winners, including Obama, sharing the same stage and honors at Stockholm as an Einstein or a Thomas Mann is a Kafkaesque nightmare.



I'm apparently suffering from "Obama Derangement Syndrome" because I oppose the man's policies. Sorry, I don't want to be a human shield so you can sit in a circle with terrorists and sing kumbaya.

On the other hand, we have more than a few people on here suffering from Obama messiah syndrome. The man can do no wrong in their eyes.


As an American of Scandanavian descent, I am so embarrassed by Obama Nobel award. He has done nothing. We are still in Afghanistan and Iraq. He is all style and no substance. I am so sorry the world media hated George Bush so much. Looking at his administration objectively - you have a man that freed millions of Iraqis. Iraqi women can now go to school, tyranny no longer rules and the Iraqi people have a say in their destiny. Now those are real accomplishments. Jimmy Carter (a joke), Al Gore (a bigger joke) and now Barack Obama (the biggest joke) - this is a political award and any protestations to the contrary are a lie.




Come on folks, give the guy a break. Look at how peaceful he left Chicago. Gang killings in the streets and the community takes it with a grain of salt. Oh and did I mention the graduation stats for H.S. students,or how about all the jobs he created in his home town? But wait, his relations with ACORN or SEIU or CCI or Van Jones or any of his other COMY buddies. I never had much love for the IOC in Denmark but now I have to reconsider the Nobel Folks. He is a true AMERICAN HERO, (as long as you live in an inner city and can get some of the Obama Stash of Cash).Oh all that Chicago love spilt over into DEtroit this past week, did'nt you see it. CAN'T YOU FEEL THE LOVE and PEACE this man has created? This is beyond absurd, please get me a dull butter knife so I can slowly bleed myself.

One American democrat leader (Al Gore) gets a Nobel Prize for fighting against having more hot air, whilst the latest democrat leader gets it for producing alot of hot air.





An affirmative action Nobel prize.



Should be renamed the nobel prize for marketing



Hey, Mr. President, you've just won The Nobel Peace Prze. What are you going to next?

Obama: I'm going to Barry's World! (formerly Disneyworld)

Well you can no longer say his time in office has not produced anything. I think this says more about the people awarding the prize than it does about our president. Can he keep the money or does he have to turn it over to the government as with other gifts?

 

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