Of course, the Nobel isn’t really about achieving peace, but usually an agenda those who award it favor. Don’t get me wrong; many who really have brought about peaceful outcomes have also been awarded the prize. But there are countless others who’ve brought about peace without recognition from the body.
Obama has, since taking office, condemned past behavior of the United States as evil. He has apologized to countless nations for our supposed wrong-headedness in pursuing our own interests. He has sought unilateral nuclear disarmament and has cut funding for our national defense projects.
He’s a global American president, in that he seeks to moderate a great debate between America and the world rather than represent the former’s interests. He often speaks as if he’s not an American citizen, per say, but a global citizen who got elected in America and can now create a better world for those who’ve suffered under the nation’s apparently evil rule.
He presents airy, Kumbaya rhetoric, usually left for a discussion of theories in the college classroom, as a real foreign and national security policy. He acts more like head of the UN than of the American government. He seems to believe that being biased in favor of America and its allies over, say, Palestine is juvenile and not progressive enough — something that needs to be corrected.
So he’s the perfect candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize — now awarded more for pursuing a leftist agenda than achieving actual peace.
He needs to escalate in Afghanistan now because he promised the American electorate he would do so during the campaign? Big deal. ‘Tis a small price to pay in pursuit of keeping the leftist in power in the United States (that evil empire that oppresses the poor state-sponsors of terrorism). Besides, his escalation comes with announced surrender dates. It’s nothing more than a speed bump for Oslo.
He’s not a war president accepting a Nobel Peace Prize. He’s an appeasement-happy, globalist president accepting the prize under the mask of being a “war president” — a mask only being worn because failing to do so would inflict serious domestic political damage. Let’s not kid ourselves.


by Stephan Tawney on December 9, 2009