More than anything, this award shows that when you really thank God George Bush, Nobel Prize in Afghanistan and that we are sending more soldiers. We understand the impulse, is not impressed with Bush's leadership. But later, when peace broke out, and that is like Obama? , Or for the missile defense system in Eastern Europe fell for the scheme or simply because it's just taking office nine months in countries invaded anyone? Less cynically, Obama may have won the prize because he inspires hope in so many people in so many places. That's a real gift, and something that may pay many dividends for Americans and others. But hope for peace is different from peace. If Obama won in part because of his undeniable oratorical gifts, his speechwriters should share in the honor.
This is not the first time the Nobel Peace Prize caused a good deal of head-scratching. Today, the political right is howling about Obama's prize, but the left was apoplectic in 1973 when, during the Vietnam War, then-Secretary of State Henry Kissinger won the Peace Prize, along with North Vietnamese Politburo Member Le Duc Tho, for arranging a cease fire that didn't last. Kissinger was seen by many as one of the architects of an immoral war. Obama, himself, seemed to recognize the preposterousness of the award. Speaking to reporters outside the White House on Friday, he said he wasn't sure he had done enough to earn the award, or even deserved to be in the company of the others who had won it before him, including just two other sitting American presidents, Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. Instead, Obama wisely spun it forward, saying he would accept it "as a call to action, a call for all nations to confront the challenges of the 21st century."
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