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Thorbjorn Jagland, chairman of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee, said today that President Obama “really ought to consider” returning his Nobel Peace Prize Medal immediately, including the “really nice” case it came in.
From Spectator.org:
The party that marched American troops into Meuse-Argonne, Normandy, Iwo Jima, Inchon and Khe Sanh is back with a vengeance under President Barack Obama, who has taken to overseas war-making like a duck to water.
This must have the Nobel Prize committee scratching its collective head.
Obama, who less than nine months after his inauguration won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize for his “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples” while fostering “a new climate” in international relations, especially in reaching out to the Islamic world, has the U.S. engaged in conflicts in six Muslim nations. Today Mr. Obama has more troops in Afghanistan than when he took office. He has widened the use of drones. (The U.S. now has 8,000 of the unmanned remote control planes.) He involved the U.S. military in an undeclared war in Libya, and waged covert wars in Yemen and Somalia.
It would be in very poor form to ask for a peace prize back. I agree with most folks that it was stupid to award it to him so early in his presidency. However, publically humiliating a leader to make up for your own mistake is just wrong. They should focus on getting it right next time.
Thorbjorn Jagland, chairman of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee, said today that President Obama “really ought to consider” returning his Nobel Peace Prize Medal immediately, including the “really nice” case it came in.
From Spectator.org:
The party that marched American troops into Meuse-Argonne, Normandy, Iwo Jima, Inchon and Khe Sanh is back with a vengeance under President Barack Obama, who has taken to overseas war-making like a duck to water.
This must have the Nobel Prize committee scratching its collective head.
Obama, who less than nine months after his inauguration won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize for his “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples” while fostering “a new climate” in international relations, especially in reaching out to the Islamic world, has the U.S. engaged in conflicts in six Muslim nations. Today Mr. Obama has more troops in Afghanistan than when he took office. He has widened the use of drones. (The U.S. now has 8,000 of the unmanned remote control planes.) He involved the U.S. military in an undeclared war in Libya, and waged covert wars in Yemen and Somalia.
It was the Nobel Committee who made the mistake, not Obama. I don't remember Obama petitioning for the prize. What kind of idiots think the President of the United States, who came into office in the midst of two wars, was ever going to earn that prize? Handing out that prize before the man had even taken office was ridiculously unrealistic and over-optimistic.
EDITED: My post still stands, but I did go back and read the link and it seems the Nobel Committee isn't the one wanting to revoke the prize. It's a petition asking for revocation.
It should be revoked. Hands down. No questions asked. End of story.
Just like the idiots in America that were fooled by Barack's Sky High Rhetoric, the Nobel Committee was duped by a professional fraud.
The Nobel Peace Prize, and other "prizes" equal, are based on merit, proven work/accomplishments and/or contributions to society, not promises that you don't or can't keep. At the time he was awarded the NPP his only achievement was making history, the first black American president.
He took office in 2008 and awarded the NPP in 2009. The reasoning behind being selected by the committee was: "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples". He did absolutely nothing between 2008 and 2009 to support that justification.
Obama himself said he didn't deserve the award, and it was one of the very few things that he said that was true. He was given the Nobel Peace Prize based on the same BS that got him elected.
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