Before you generate any real dudgeon at the absurdity of Barack Hussein Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize, contemplate for a moment some of the previous winners.
- Al Gore & the IPCC: what climate study of any validity has to do with world peace is a mystery. That the work of these people is farcical just makes it worse.
- James Earl Carter: little more needs to be said here. Note that he didn’t win it back when Egypt and Israel sat down to negotiate, but recently, after he indulged in a bout of dictator nuzzling.
- The UN: granted, it was founded allegedly to promote peace, but at a time when that meant the military and economic hegemony of the US and its western allies. Since then it has become increasingly ineffective at everything except antisemitism. At that it excels.
- Yasser Arafat: of all of them, this puts the lie to the very name of the award. Yasser Arafat was a goon, an inciter of riot, a brazen thief and a would-be committer of genocide if only given the chance. The nominating committee hit rock bottom with this one and lost its last shred of credibility.
- Henry Kissinger: as a practitioner of realpolitick it could be argued that in at least some cases he did advance the cause of peace. But his instrument was Richard Nixon. Fail!
- Woodrow Wilson: a rabid segregationist and, during WWI, America’s first Fascist dictator. (A fact that seems to have escaped most text books.) Wilson’s efforts at “peace” consisted of showing up at the Versailles Peace Conference where, armed with the only military force not decimated and bankrupt, he proceeded to force the formation of a dozen nation-states too small to be economically or militarily viable. At the same time he gave in to the Allied demand for massive war reparations from Germany. Together those two policies set the stage for the peaceful years of 1939-1945.
So the current selection of a pompous windbag and socialist with closet totalitarian tendencies is no surprise. That Obama won the award a week after advocating increased troop buildups in Afghanistan is mere icing on the cake. After all, this is “peace” as defined by Eurocrats, not by people with any real experience in making lives better.
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