Like a lot of people, I was majorly surprised to hear that President Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize. I would have thought that he has only gotten a start on his stated goals in international relations.
But perhaps this is a sign to us Americans of how bad our international image had become before Obama took office. You all know how deep my feelings go about the Bush doctrine of pre-emptive war (if you don't remember, let me remind you). If the most powerful country on earth has a foreign policy as dangerous as that, maybe it really would be viewed by other nations as the world's biggest problem. Maybe the election of a new president who is going in a different direction is so great a relief that it really would merit the Nobel Prize.
UPDATE: I just made a debate web page on this topic. Go give your opinion about whether it makes sense to give Obama the Peace Prize.
The world(i.e., the poor countries and the 90% who are not of European colonialist descent) is relieved to have
a man who is not violently hellbent on his view point and nothing but a rapist capitalistic viewpoint. The world is relieved to have someone who is articulate, charismatic but not tinged with a arrogant euro supremist attitude and finally the world would be shocked if these gun toting violent prone Neanderthal heathens don't kill Obama before next month.
Posted by: uriah yisrael | Saturday, October 10, 2009 at 06:51 AM