Nobel Peace Prize (is) for Dummies
Barack Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize. That was the headline. A joke. My first thought when I was reading headline was that it must be from the Onion. The headline was true, and it was also a joke, with Obama being the punch line.
Obama’s nomination, just 12 days into his presidency, was an act of illegitimacy accompanied by the consummate impossibility of justification. What legitimate justification can be argued for Obama’s winning the Nobel Peace Prize? What exploit of consequence and unique accomplishment that quantitatively benefited mankind did Obama realize? The indignant and ludicrous maneuver of bestowing the Nobel Peace Prize on Barack Obama for attempting nothing and accomplishing less, while the other 205 nominees, including these leading candidates presented by The Weekley Standard: Sima Samar, Ingrid Betancourt, Dr. Denis Mukwege, Hu Jia, Wei Jingsheng, and Handicap International and Cluster Munition Coalition, who were deservedly sitting at the front of the line, has delivered the Nobel Peace Prize into the abyss of obsolescence.
Obama’s winning the Nobel Peace Prize supplements the continuing validation by liberal progressives of the intellectual and moral debasement of another once, long ago, staid institution.
The Nobel Institute and the horde of Norwegian professors who bestowed this once legitimate award on Obama are a league of liberal progressive socialist politicians masquerading as a society of erudite benevolents. This Nobel Institute, this milquetoast nest of socialists, has a recent history of bestowing awards upon celebrities in possession of a political platform that aligns with their philosophy of Socialism — sans accomplishments, of course. Anyone possessing attributes antithetical to American canonical values, coupled with the above qualifications, should enjoy a serious expectation of winning; add to the mix of previous ingredients an American, especially a sitting president with a jejune and timorous disposition, and a more likely candidate without peers does not exist. To ensure an unassailable victory, the candidate should have a history of indicting Bush and American exceptionalism for the infirmaries of the world– a skill Obama has mastered without peer. The Nobel Institute was surely salivating at the Trotskyite manna that fell into their collective laps, with another opportunity to award another Bush antagonist.
What the Nobel Institute actually accomplished was accentuating the manifestation of the nothingness of Barack Obama, which quite comically, has reached caricature proportions.
Obama obviously, let’s hope, did not nominate himself, but he is culpable in the iniquitous transaction nonetheless. Example: if one is actually bested in a tournament of intellectual competition, yet called forth as champion to accept his award, knowing with absolute certainty he is undeserved of the award obviously granted through an administrative error, with a wink and a nod to the incredulous and deserving defeated, thanking all involved, dismounts the podium clutching his misbegotten prize and ego, at that point, he is guilty of cheating. Barack Obama, a person of non-existent accomplishments benefiting anyone outside his reprobate vortex of political accomplices, is clutching his misbegotten prize and ego while wantonly cheating the candidates who have risked their lives over the course of years for the betterment of mankind.
The abstruse reason for awarding Obama the Nobel Peace Prize was “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples and his outreach to the Muslim world and attempts to curb nuclear proliferation.” This is quite an astonishing laundry list of things on the to-do list. Unfortunately, the committee seems to share the same undisciplined criteria for vetting as Obama, which could be the result of a severe case of Fascist Myopia. Reach out to the Muslim world, indeed. If Obama really desires to impress with his “great uniter” skills, perhaps he could convince the Muslim world to reach out to the non-Muslim world, and if the stars align, maybe, just maybe, he could convince the Muslim world that when something is published or spoken unflatteringly about Islam, they could react without rioting, killing, and causing general mayhem. But again, this would actually require action and a result.
Let us examine Obama’s trend analysis in his areas of qualifications. He has attempted nothing, and accomplished nothing. Other than that, his administration, at nine months, possesses the worst foreign policy initiatives since Carter. Let us examine Obama’s foreign policy potential. Assuming the committee meant “international cooperation between peoples,” what does Obama’s trend in this area predict? Obama was not able to bridge the gap between his scurrilous church and its racist preacher, Jeremiah Wright, with genteel society. Since taking office, Obama has engineered the biggest division in this country’s history since the Civil War. There is an ideological chasm rending this country apart, perpetrated by the most divisive president this country has had the privilege of enduring. And the Nobel Institute actually believes these failures will produce results in the world arena, and are the blueprint for world peace? Historical note: wholesale appeasement from the position of a nebish, armed with an unsophisticated intellect, does not diplomacy make.
Obama’s notion that should the U.S. initiate disarming itself of nuclear weapons, the evilness of the world will follow suite and dissipate, is preposterous– this vacuous rhetoric is spoken while cowering in the corner, barking acerbic rhetoric at Iran and North Korea as they laugh and fast-track their nuclear weapons programs. This approach could be supposed by progressives as technically curbing nuclear proliferation and reaching out to the Muslim world simultaneously. If the United States loses their nuclear weapons, and North Korea and Iran acquire theirs to fill the void, and perhaps Venezuela could be aided in acquiring its own program, it becomes a zero sum game in proliferation.
The effete sheep-like disposition of the pacifist Left leads them to believe that they can bleat in cacophonous harmony, and either keep the war-mongering wolves of the world at bay, or through their incessant bleating, cause them to drop their weapons, join hands, break out the ukulele, and sing kumbaya. This myth can be dispelled with just a cursory glance at history. Using the totality of recorded history as a guide, there exists, in this world, one way, and one way only, to achieve peace, and Reagan summed it up in one sentence: Peace through Power.
No country is a bystander during a world war. It will either eat or be eaten, own or be owned. Norway thought they could enjoy neutrality from the peanut gallery during both World Wars, but lost their merchant fleet in World War One because they could not defend it, and were occupied by Germany in World War Two because they could not defend themselves. This ideology is what they are promoting by awarding the Peace Prize to Carter and Obama. This is the path Obama wants to lead America down: he wants America to join the choir and sing in three-part harmony with the sheep of the world.
How about a Nobel Peace Prize for the past three Republican presidents? Reagan ended the Cold War without firing a shot and brought down the Berlin Wall, bestowing freedom to millions; George Bush, Sr. freed Kuwait from Iraq; and George W. Bush brought freedom to millions of Iraqis. How about a prize for them? Their methods may not have been perfect, and caused unwanted lateral ramifications, but they actually did something and peoples of the world benefited. But, quite frankly, these three men do not deserve the Nobel Peace Prize, and America does not deserve a president who qualifies for the Nobel Peace Prize. Acquiring freedom, as witnessed by the Revolutionary War, is an ugly business, and keeping it is even uglier. I will take freedom over the Nobel Peace Prize. And if the cost of America’s freedom is unpopularity, so be it. Leave the business of pursuing world peace to the altruist, and leave the business of keeping their paths open to the powerful, which if necessary, will use their powers to ensure the altruists’ pursuit of peace is unencumbered.
Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize for attempting nothing. The lesson gathered from this is as follows: accomplish nothing in your private professional life, get elected to the state Senate; accomplish nothing in the state Senate, get elected to the U.S. Senate; accomplish nothing in the U.S. Senate, get elected president; and accomplish nothing as president, win the Nobel Peace Prize. This certainly is a teachable moment: Just do nothing and wait to be whisked off to fortune and fame.
Comments (1)
‘Tis my belief that he only got the award out of a hate for Bush.
Personally, I’d've loved to see Greg Mortenson get the award.