PEACE FOR OUR TIME?

So that august body of socialists over in Norway has awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to Barack Hussein Obama. How nice! In presenting the award, the committee cited Obama’s “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples “ and “attached special importance to Obama’s vision of and work for a world without nuclear weapons.”

Let’s see. Iran and North Korea are launching test missiles every other day and Iran continues unabated with their nuclear weapons program. The Dear Leader has ditched the Bush-era proposal for an anti-missile shield in Europe because it upset the Russians and he needs their help with Iran. He left our allies twisting in the wind and in return got some oblique statement from the Russkies about possible sanctions against Iran. Then, just last month, the Russian Foreign Minister stated “Threats, sanctions and threats of pressure in the current situation, we are convinced, would be counterproductive.” Wow. What a shocker! China seems unimpressed with our Nobel Laureate and continues to do nothing while North Korea runs amok and they remain opposed to sanctions against Iran. Yes, everybody seems to be getting along splendidly!

This latest joke is nothing new for the Nobel Committee. With their ideological litmus test and penchant for wishful thinking, they have been on a steady path to clownish irrelevance. Consider this collection of charlatans, commies and miscreants, Nobel Laureates all:

2007 – AL GORE

The “Goracle” shared the prize with something called the “Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change” (our tax dollars at work). The Committee awarded them the Peace Prize “for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change.” What any of this nonsense has to do with peace is beyond a logical person’s understanding. I think they just felt a need to award him for not being George Bush.



2002 – JIMMY CARTER

Jimmy won “for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development.” This sounds like more Norwegian speak for “he’s not George Bush.” Economic development? When Jimmy left office in 1980, after four disastrous years, the unemployment rate was seven percent, the inflation rate was 13.5 percent and interest rates were at 21 percent. Oh, those were heady times!

Maybe it was the way he handled the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. Jimmy’s bold response to this “international conflict” was to send Moscow a sternly worded letter and then he manned up by boycotting the 1980 summer Olympics. Wow! After spending ten years getting their asses kicked by the U.S. backed mujahideen, the Soviet’s pulled out of Afghanistan in 1989.

Then there was his “peaceful solution” to the Iranian hostage crises. Actually, the American people solved this one for Jimmy. Americans had the good sense to elect Ronald Reagan in 1980. After 444 days of whining and pleading by Carter, the hostages were released on the day Reagan took office.



1994 – YASSER ARAFAT, et al

The committee gave Arafat, the head of the Palistine Liberation Organization, and leaders from Israel the peace prize “For their efforts to create peace in the Middle East.”

Some of you younger readers might not know this but the Middle East was not always the land of peace and harmony that it is today. Israel was constantly being attacked by suicide bombers, mortars, rockets and bombs. The preferred targets were usually innocent women and children. The man that funded and planned many of these attacks was Yasser Arafat, a lifelong terrorist. He signed a worthless agreement with Israel and never stopped murdering innocent civilians but he did get his “peace prize.”

1990 – MIKHAIL GORBACHEV

Those nutty Norwegians gave Gorbachev the award “for his leading role in the peace process which today characterizes important parts of the international community.” So it was the commies that ended the cold war and brought peace to the “international community”? I don’t think so. Let’s review some facts.

In a 1983 speech to the National Association of Evangelicals, President Ronald Reagan said:

“In your discussion of the nuclear freeze proposals, I urge you to beware the temptation of pride, the temptation of blithely declaring yourselves above it all and label both sides equally at fault, to ignore the facts of history and the aggressive impulses of an evil empire, to simply call the arms race a giant misunderstanding and thereby remove yourself from the struggle between right and wrong and good and evil.”

Reagan rejected the liberal concept of moral equivalency and believed America had not only the responsibility and moral authority to confront and defeat Soviet tyranny, but also the singular ability to do so. The only thing lefty politicians and the Main Stream Media took from his speech was that he called the Soviet Union an “Evil Empire.” They were quite distraught and there was much hand wringing and whining. They thought Reagan was unstable and dangerous and now he was calling commies evil! Well, from the time of the Russian revolution to 1987, 70 years, it is estimated that 50 to 60 million people were killed in the Soviet Union through starvation, forced labor camps and outright murder of political dissidents. I think evil empire is an accurate description. Reagan decided that the United States, with the wealth generated by a capitalistic economy and the superior technology facilitated by free markets and private property rights could bury the Soviet Union. And he was right. Even the Soviet Union understood what American liberals would not or could not contemplate. Speaking to the Politburo in October 1986, just days before he was to meet with Reagan in Reykjavik, Iceland, Gorbachev told his fellow commies:

“We will be pulled into an arms race that is beyond our capabilities, and we will lose it because we are at the limits of our capabilities. …If the new round [of an arms race] begins, the pressures on our economy will be unbelievable.”

So Reagan’s doctrine of “peace thru strength” worked. The leader of an oppressive, tyrannical regime realized he could not beat us so he quit. And the idiot Norwegians made a defeated bully a Nobel Laureate.

1973 – LE DUC THO

In a mild upset, Le Duc Tho, chief negotiator for North Vietnam, shared the award with Secretary of State Henry Kissinger for reaching a cease fire agreement in the Vietnam War. Hollywood lefties and media elites were hopeful that Jane Fonda would win the award for her “heroic” trip to North Vietnam in 1972. “Hanoi” Jane spent two weeks cavorting with the enemy, posing for pictures and accusing our armed forces of being baby killers. Jane was ultimately vindicated in 1995 when Bui Tin, a member of the North Vietnamese Army General Staff said that Ms. Fonda and the American antiwar movement “was essential to our strategy.” Traitorous Bitch.

So, U.S. forces left Vietnam and the commie Le Duc Tho got his Nobel Prize. Of course, this paved the way for Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge to turn Cambodia into the killing fields where they slaughtered nearly two million people in four years. No matter. The imperialistic, war-mongering Americans were out of Southeast Asia.

Barack Hussein Obama received his prize not for anything he has done, obviously, but because of who he is. The Nobel Committee was so giddy that America finally had a president that subscribes to their guiding principle – NOTHING IS WORTH FIGHTING FOR – that they couldn’t wait to give him a prize. This principle is antithetical to the belief of American Patriots. As Patrick Henry said:

“Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God. I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”

That a bunch of Norwegian socialists would find the views of an American Patriot to be extreme and misguided means nothing to me. But an American President? God help us!