President Obama - 2009 Nobel Peace Prize!!

It was announced a few hours ago that the President of the United States has been awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize for his extraordinary diplomatic work, and for his ability to motivate the world to come together in order to confront the problems it faces. Obama now joins James Carter, Woodrow Wilson, and Theodore Roosevelt in that exclusive club of American Presidents who have been honored in such a tremendous fashion by the Nobel Prize committee.

I'm just going to LOVE watching republicans swallow this one... };-)

OBAMA RULES!!
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[JustAnotherMutant]

Actually, I just feel it was premature. While I don't disagree with the committee that the president contributed to world peace, I don't feel that he qualified as either the person who "shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses".

[armyveteran101st]

@JustAnotherMutant I think that the award of the Nobel Prize to President Obama was more of an award to the American people for rejecting the stupid, world-ruining policies of the right wing and the republican party. Obama just happened to be the person representing us at the moment. I don't think most people truly appreciate how toxic and harmful George W Bush's presidency was for the world. Apparently the Nobel selection committee did understand, and awarding us the prize was their reaction.

[davidroguemusic]

thanks for posting....5 stars!

[armyveteran101st]

No offense, but that's the same attitude that drove Hitler, Stalin, Tojo, the Khmer Rouge, Mao, Castro and other murderous dictators throughout history to act as they did, with the consequences we all know today. If we were to start behaving the same way, we would be just as despicable and noxious as they were. Being strong doesn't give one the right to be arbitrary, arrogant, or disdainful of others, just the opposite. Strength comes with responsibility to act fairly and judiciously.

[armyveteran101st]

Well, that's an extreme way of looking at the situation, which you have every right to exercise. When America negotiates, it doesn't do it from the position of arrogance and disdain that you seem to prefer. It does it because it is the right, just, and equitable thing to do. We cannot lower ourselves down to the same level the terrorists live in. We're the good guys, and we have to behave as such. You'll never lose as long as you negotiate from a position of moral strength, backed up by force.

[EPGAH]

Alternately, of course, we could just take the oilfields, setup a border we actually ENFORCE(!), let the terrorists keep poking at the civilized world, and laugh as they slowly switch from AK&C4 to sticks&stones, deprived of the petrodollars that fuel their evil war-machine. By contrast, America will have control of the terrorists' oil, and THRIVE.

After all, I think our sense of "tolerance" was based on abundant and cheap jobs&oil, and the loss of that has accelerated Balkanization!

[EPGAH]

Again, that's a cultural difference: When we negotiate, we see it as being magnanimous, offering a fig leaf from a position of strength.

The thugs see it much more simply: Whoever asks to bargain first is the weaker, and therefore the loser.

Which is why we need to completely CLEANSE the Moslem terrorists this time.

No more half-measures like the Crusades, Barbary War, Kenya, etc.

[armyveteran101st]

I think you can never go wrong using diplomacy, because if it doesn't solve the differences with your adversaries at least it shows that you've made an effort to solve things peacefully, and that you go to war reluctantly in defense of your interests. No civilized, intelligent nation can afford to be seen by other nations as a mindless war-monger, as that goes against the interests of all nations. I agree with your thought about the Taliban and AQ seeing benefits from our drawn-out stay there.

[EPGAH]

Yes, but more importantly, to them, talking shows our weakness--that, and the fact that we haven't completely exterminated terrorists in a lesser country as they keep pumping more in...

The longer they draw this out, the more they can can claim they're "winning"

I believe the Rules of Engagement are getting in the way of troops' survival, and I'd much rather see a few more dead terrorists than more dead Americans.

Or put simply, they cheat, we can too.

[armyveteran101st]

I'm not a big Soccer fan either, but I do enjoy watching the games played during international competitions. I'm sure South Africa will do an outstanding job hosting the tournament, and I believe the entire continent will benefit from having the world's attention focused on it.