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     Yvettep AALBC .com Platinum Poster Username: Yvettep Post Number: 3671 Registered: 01-2005 Rating: N/A |
Wow. Just wow. Way to overshadow that whole Olympics thing... | ||
| Cynique "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Cynique Post Number: 14165 Registered: 01-2004 Rating: |
I'm becoming convinced that Obama is, indeed, a Man of Destiny. Does Somebody up there like him? With the upswing in his approval ratings and this winning of the Nobel Peace Prize, the tide seems to be turning in his favor. Like Shakespeare opines: "There is a tide in the affairs of men which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune..." I hope Obama makes the right decision about Afghanistan because the rest of the quote says: "...Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries." | ||
| Chrishayden "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Chrishayden Post Number: 8215 Registered: 03-2004 Rating: N/A |
This is going to bite Barry in his ass. Ask all the poor people in Afghanistan and Pakistan getting the hell bombed out of him do he deserve a Nobel Peace Prize. Ask all the Negroes who are going to be frozen out of health care do he deserve a peace prize. Ask those in Iran they are trying to gin up the war drums on. Next year, when he has done nothing in the wake of it, watch his poll numbers and watch what happens to the Democrats after the election. Some former winners--Henry Kissinger after he bombed the hell out of Bach Mai hospital in N. Vietnam. Le Duc Tho about three years before he sent his armored divisions flooding all over S. Vietnam. You negroes still think a honky award means something-- We have a long way to go And not much time to get there. | ||
| Chrishayden "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Chrishayden Post Number: 8218 Registered: 03-2004 Rating: N/A |
War and Peace By ALEXANDER COCKBURN I suppose we should not begrudge Barack Obama his Nobel Peace Prize, though it represents a radical break in tradition, since he's only had slightly less than nine months to discharge his imperial duties, most concretely through the agency of high explosives in the Hindu Kush whereas laureates like Henry Kissinger had been diligently slaughtering people across the world for years. Woodrow Wilson, the liberal imperialist with whom Obama bears some marked affinities, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1919, having brought America into the carnage of the First World War. The peace laureate president who preceded him was Teddy Roosevelt, who got the prize in 1906 as reward for sponsorship of the Spanish-American war and ardent bloodletting in the Philippines. Senator George Hoar’s famous denunciation of Roosevelt on the floor of the US Senate in May of 1902 was probably what alerted the Nobel Committee to Roosevelt’s eligibility for the Peace Prize: “You have sacrificed nearly ten thousand American lives—the flower of our youth. You have devastated provinces. You have slain uncounted thousands of the people you desire to benefit. You have established reconcentration camps. Your generals are coming home from their harvest bringing sheaves with them, in the shape of other thousands of sick and wounded and insane to drag out miserable lives, wrecked in body and mind. You make the American flag in the eyes of a numerous people the emblem of sacrilege in Christian churches, and of the burning of human dwellings, and of the horror of the water torture. ” TR was given the peace prize not long after he’d displayed his boundless compassion for humanity by sponsoring an exhibition of Filipino “monkey men” in the 1904 St Louis World Fair as “the missing link” in the evolution of Man from ape to Aryan, and thus in sore need of assimilation, forcible if necessary, to the American way. On receipt of the prize, Roosevelt promptly dispatched the Great White Fleet (sixteen U.S. Navy ships of the Atlantic Fleet including four battleships) on a worldwide tour to display Uncle Sam’s imperial credentials, anticipating by scarce more than a century, Obama’s award, as he prepares to impose Pax Americana on the Hindukush and portions of Pakistan. People marvel at the idiocy of these Nobel awards, but there’s method in the madness, since in the end they train people to accept without demur or protest absurdity as part and parcel of the human condition, which they should accept as representing the considered opinion of rational men, albeit Norwegian. It’s a twist on the Alger myth, inspiring to youth: you too can get to murder Filipinos, or Palestinians, or Vietnamese or Afghans and still win a Peace Prize. That’s the audacity of hope at full stretch. | ||
| Yvettep AALBC .com Platinum Poster Username: Yvettep Post Number: 3678 Registered: 01-2005 Rating: N/A |
Chris, I think you are putting far too much emphasis in the degree of importance most folks put on the Nobel Peace Prize. Most folks could give a care. Except for those lucky charities that will , apparently, receive some of his Nobel Benjamins! LOL |
