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October 09, 2009
Peace in our time! At last!
I was going to comment on Barack Obama winning the now-thoroughly discredited Nobel Peace Prize, but I see M. Simon has beaten me to it, and said this: Expect a war. A big war. Soon.Yes, as I said just last week, "If you want war, prepare for peace." The Brits are already having fun with the award; in an editorial titled "absurd decision on Obama makes a mockery of the Nobel peace prize," the Times has a scathing review: 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.The whole thing is undignified in the extreme, and makes the United States look like a laughingstock (at least, to the people around the world who didn't think we were a laughingstock during the years we were said to be a laughingstock under Bush.) Or maybe I'm missing something. Will our enemies love us now? I'm skeptical. posted by Eric on 10.09.09 at 11:49 AM
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When it took 40 years after the invention to give a nobel prize for physics, one must wonder why a peace prize is given based on less than one year of speeches with no achievement. Hugh · October 9, 2009 02:45 PM Will our enemies love us now? Yes, yes they will. Your enemies like you weak and apologizing. Geez, didn't you go to high school? I have to admit, I read something today that makes me realize that this prize has been a joke at least as much as it hasn't. According to the Wash Post, Woodrow Wilson got the Nobel Peace Prize partly for working on the Versailles Treaty and partly for starting the League of Nations. In other words, the man whose actions helped sow the seeds for Hitler and WWII won the Nobel Peace Prize exactly for those actions. Veeshir · October 9, 2009 06:27 PM Every once in a while when I'm being a nice gay man, I remember that I can also be a faggot. With apologies. . . The Twelve Days of the Peace Prize On the first day of the Peace Prize On the second day of the Peace Prize On the third day of the Peace Prize On the fourth day of the Peace Prize On the fifth day of the Peace Prize On the sixth day of the Peace Prize On the seventh day of the Peace Prize On the eighth day of the Peace Prize On the ninth day of the Peace Prize On the tenth day of the Peace Prize On the eleventh day of the Peace Prize On the twelfth day of the Peace Prize By all means, please sing along. Brooks Brooks · October 9, 2009 11:33 PM Post a comment
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