The Nobel Committee has just announced the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize. They've given it to President Obama.
At first I thought it was the worst possible choice. After all, what has President Obama done to deserve a Peace Prize. Then I came across this site.
Nobel stated that the Peace Prize should go "to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses". After reading that, Obama getting the award makes perfect sense, especially when you compare him to the other two sitting presidents to receive the award: Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson.
Teddy Roosevelt won for the creation of a "peace conference" that ended the Russo-Japanese War. Woodrow Wilson created the League of Nations.
The last is extremely ironic as the League of Nations failed to achieve peace.
And Obama? Well, he is basically subordinating American sovereignty to the U.N.
Subordinating the United States to a body composed of leaders like Putin, Ahmadenejad, Hugo Chavez, Khadafy, et al. is hardly likely to create world peace. It just allows those bad actors to do whatever they please.
Obama has been awarded the Peace Prize for his unwillingness to confront those leaders responsible for the lack of peace. Time to call the prize what it actually represents an ignoble non-peace prize.
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