A couple of weeks in advance of sending up to 40,000 more troops to Afghanistan on top of the 20,000 sent earlier in the year, potentially turning it into his Vietnam, and on the same day as the US started bombing the moon – St Barrack of Obama has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
It’s hard to see what or where his short spell as president has brought about, or advanced progress towards, peace/diplomacy – Gaza? Sri Lanka? Iran? Congo? Guinea? Georgia? Sudan? Iraq? Afghanistan? Guantanamo?
The prize committee say he is being rewarded for his:-
extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy
So it’s not even for any achievement of actually strengthening international diplomacy, but merely for effort expended in that aim – like the equivalent of giving school kids prizes for effort in itself and feels along the same lines as the barrage of blind liberal patronising praise lavished upon Obama when he first emerged as a serious presidential contender.
Even more bizarre however is the fact that while Obama took office on 20th January this year, nominations for the award itself closed on 1st February, meaning that he has been awarded the prize on the basis of 11 days work in Office.
As the award itself is named after a man who invented dynamite and made his fortune by finding ways to kill more people faster than ever before, and counts people such as Henry Kissinger amongst its previous recipients it’s never really been treated that seriously, but surely even Obama himself must be cringing at this latest sycophantic gesture?
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