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.
Instead, the prize risks looking preposterous in its claims, patronising in its intentions and demeaning in its attempt to build up a man who has barely begun his period in office, let alone achieved any tangible outcome for peace.
The pretext for the prize was Mr Obama’s decision to “strengthen international diplomacy and co-operation between peoples”. Many people will point out that, while the President has indeed promised to “reset” relations with Russia and offer a fresh start to relations with the Muslim world, there is little so far to show for his fine words.
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.
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4 responses to “Peace in our time! At last!”
Tom Lehrer said that when they gave the Nobel peace prize to Henry Kissinger, it made political satire obsolete.
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.
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.
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
The Committee sent to me
A Nobel without the prefix ?Ig?
On the second day of the Peace Prize
The Committee sent to me
Two ignored wars
And a Nobel without the prefix ?Ig?
On the third day of the Peace Prize
The Committee sent to me
Three tax evaders
Two ignored wars
And a Nobel without the prefix ?Ig?
On the fourth day of the Peace Prize
The Committee sent to me
Four martyred Nedas
Three tax evaders
Two ignored wars
And a Nobel without the prefix ?Ig?
On the fifth day of the Peace Prize
The Committee sent to me
Five abandoned Poles
Four martyred Nedas
Three tax evaders and
Two ignored wars
And a Nobel without the prefix ?Ig?
On the sixth day of the Peace Prize
The Committee sent to me
Six Derrion Alberts
Five abandoned Poles
Four martyred Nedas
Three tax evaders and
Two ignored wars
And a Nobel without the prefix ?Ig?
On the seventh day of the Peace Prize
The Committee sent to me
Seven Rangels scamming
Six Derrion Alberts
Five abandoned Poles
Four martyred Nedas
Three tax evaders and
Two ignored wars
And a Nobel without the prefix ?Ig?
On the eighth day of the Peace Prize
The Committee sent to me
Eight Pelosis strutting
Seven Rangels scamming
Six Derrion Alberts
Five abandoned Poles
Four martyred Nedas
Three tax evaders and
Two ignored wars
And a Nobel without the prefix ?Ig?
On the ninth day of the Peace Prize
The Committee sent to me
Nine Reids ascowling
Eight Pelosis strutting
Seven Rangels scamming
Six Derrion Alberts
Five abandoned Poles
Four martyred Nedas
Three tax evaders and
Two ignored wars
And a Nobel without the prefix ?Ig?
On the tenth day of the Peace Prize
The Committee sent to me
Ten ACORNS falling
Nine Reids ascowling
Seven Rangels scamming
Six Derrion Alberts
Five abandoned Poles
Four martyred Nedas
Three tax evaders and
Two ignored wars
And a Nobel without the prefix ?Ig?
On the eleventh day of the Peace Prize
The Committee sent to me
Eleven more banks failing
Ten ACORNS falling
Nine Reids ascowling
Eight Pelosis strutting
Seven Rangels scamming
Six Derrion Alberts
Five abandoned Poles
Four martyred Nedas
Three tax evaders and
Two ignored wars
And a Nobel without the prefix ?Ig?
On the twelfth day of the Peace Prize
The Committee sent to me
Twelve per cent unemployment
Eleven more banks failing
Ten Acorns falling
Nine Reids ascowling
Eight Pelosis strutting
Seven Rangels scamming
Six Derrion Alberts
Five abandoned Poles
Four martyred Nedas
Three tax evaders and
Two ignored wars
And a Nobel without the prefix ?Ig?
By all means, please sing along.
Brooks