So if Obama goes ahead with Syria plans, does he become the first Nobel Laureate to attack another country? (Marines, weapons)

[VTHokieFan]

Usually nobel laureates do good in the world, not start wars. Interesting.

[Mathguy]

Originally Posted by VTHokieFan

Usually nobel laureates do good in the world, not start wars. Interesting.

Arafat won one.

The Nobel prize committees are generally pretty good.....just not the peace prize committee.

[VTHokieFan]

Originally Posted by Mathguy

Arafat won one.

The Nobel prize committees are generally pretty good.....just not the peace prize committee.

That's good company to be in.

[Winter_Sucks]

Originally Posted by VTHokieFan

Usually nobel laureates do good in the world, not start wars. Interesting.

Preventing another chemical weapons attack isn't a good thing? Interesting.

[Little-Acorn]

So if Obama goes ahead with Syria plans, does he become the first Nobel Laureate to attack another country?


He did that already, when he attacked Libya.

Originally Posted by Mathguy

Arafat won one.

Arafat continued an existing war his people were already fighting, he didn't bring them into a new one.

[KUchief25]

Well the EU won it last year. LOL. They would never attack anybody. Damn whole world is upside down anymore.

[mwruckman]

Originally Posted by VTHokieFan

Usually nobel laureates do good in the world, not start wars. Interesting.

This is false, One of the first American Nobel Peace Prize winners who did just this was Theodore Roosevelt who won the prize for brokering an end to the Russo-Japanese War of 1905 but had no problem sending US Marines in to Central American and Caribean Nations, supressing a an uprising in both Cuba and the Phillipines and backing Panamain rebels in taking Panama away from Columbia and taking control og the Canal Zone when Columbia would not agree to give the Canal Zone to the US. He also did what we call gun boat diplomacy by sending the "The White Fleet" of US Battleships and cruisers on a circumglobal trip to display US Naval Power.

[VTHokieFan]

Originally Posted by mwruckman

This is false, One of the first American Nobel Peace Prize winners who did just this was Theodore Roosevelt who won the prize for brokering an end to the Russo-Japanese War of 1905 but had no problem sending US Marines in to Central American and Caribean Nations, supressing a an uprising in both Cuba and the Phillipines and backing Panamain rebels in taking Panama away from Columbia and taking control og the Canal Zone when Columbia would not agree to give the Canal Zone to the US. He also did what we call gun boat diplomacy by sending the "The White Fleet" of US Battleships and cruisers on a circumglobal trip to display US Naval Power.

It's not false. The fact is "usually, nobel laureates do good in the world, not start wars."

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[Little-Acorn]

BTW, Alfred Nobel, the man who set up the funding for the Peace Prize and others that bear his name, made that money by inventing DYNAMITE.

He also invented a more powerful explosive, gelignite, and owned several major companies manufacturing cannons and other armaments.

His father invented plywood.

Peace prize... the guy did have a sense of humor, didn't he.

[mwruckman]

Originally Posted by Mathguy

Arafat won one.

The Nobel prize committees are generally pretty good.....just not the peace prize committee.

You can add such lumin aries as

Henry Kissinger
Elenore Roosevelt
Henry Kissinger
Menachem Begin
Yitzak Rabin
Le Duc Thuo