Posted by
ApolloSpeaks on Friday, October 09, 2009 9:23:41 AM
Rough riding peacemaker No rough rider he
There was a time when the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to people who truly advanced the cause of peace in the world with solid international achievements. Now it's given to leaders who simply have good intentions and politically correct views with absolutely no accomplishments of note to his name.
Compare the blind, bungling Barack Obama to the hard headed realist Teddy Roosevelt* who truly earned and deserved the award for negotiating an end to the Russo-Japanese War. Roosevelt, the rough riding hero of San Juan Hill, who lived by the rule "Speak softly and carry a big stick," won the respect of world leaders with his toughness, good sense and forceful personality when negotiating peace. Obama's world standing, on the other hand, is so pathetically low that Nicolas Sarkozy publicly mocked him for his immaturity and serious reality problems-which are having the unintended effect of emboldening our enemies and making the world a more dangerous place (
see). Speak softly and carry a toothpick is Obama's approach to dealing with our foes and deterring them from evil-a recipe for disaster.
*Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson and Obama are the only sitting US President's to receive the award. Wilson received the award in 1919 for founding the League of Nations.
Today's mindless and dishonorable decision by the Nobel Committee to award the Peace Prize to a well meaning but muddleheaded President who is unconsciously sowing the seeds of conflict and war is further proof that the award has been drained of all substance, worth and meaning.
This was an anticipatory award based on the expectation that Obama's false image as a world transformational figure is his true destiny, and that he's fated to make a unique and historic difference for peace in the world (see ). In reality his destiny is the exact opposite as he is playing a very destructive role both domestically and globally out of which, I believe, much good will come.
Postscript I: The North Korean Bomb, A.Q. Khan and Bin Ladin's Nuclear Bomb Maker
Ironically the Norwegians awarded Obama their prize in part for his "attempts to curb nuclear proliferation," on the third anniversary of nuclear proliferator North Korea detonating its first atom bomb*. This is the same Obama who was silent when rogue nuclear Pakistani scientist A.Q. Khan-who shared nuclear secrets with Iran, Libya and North Korea, was released from house arrest after five years and free to travel anywhere**.
This is hardly a good sign that Obama's crusade to ban the bomb will be successful in stopping Russia backed Iran from going nuclear; or preventing bin-Ladin from getting low yield nuke as today we learned that French authorities arrested a nuclear scientist charging him with being a bomb maker for al-Qaida.
*The Norks exploded a nuclear device on October 9, 2006.
**Khan was released on February 6th just five days after Obama's name was submitted as a nominee for the Peace Prize.
Postscript II: Did Woodrow Wilson Deserve the Peace Prize?
The answer in yes. Wilson ruined his health and nearly killed himself in a cross country campaign to persuade America to join the League of Nations. Wrong though he was Wilson passionately believed that the League was the answer to world peace and that America's membership was crucial to making it work. Due to Wilson's efforts at Versailles the League became an accomplished fact, and for that he richly deserved the prize.