Congratulations to the U.S. armed forces for winning the Nobel Peace Prize. They really deserve it for preventing a Third World War and winning the Cold War. They kept the peace (most of the time) in Europe and East Asia, thereby making possible the transformation of these regions into powerhouses of the global economy after centuries of costly strife. I am sure Gen. Martin Dempsey is looking forward to traveling to Oslo to receive….
Oops. Sorry about that. Seems I got it wrong. Silly me. The Nobel Peace Prize Committee didn’t actually award the U.S. military its annual tribute; instead it chose the European Union. Which would not exist had not the U.S. armed forces not ended the long hostility between France and Germany, created a new, democratic Germany, and enforced the peace for more than sixty years. But of course the U.S. military is more likely to be reviled than credited by advanced thinkers in Europe.
So we have the spectacle of the most laughable of awards going to the EU just at the moment when it appears to be in the middle of an economic meltdown and the future of the Eurozone is up for grabs. Well, it could have been worse. At least the EU didn’t get the Nobel Economics Prize.
Congratulations to President Barack Obama for winning the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples. n nOops. Sorry about that. Seems I got it wrong. Silly me. The Nobel Peace Prize Committee didn’t actually award President Obama ; instead it choose the Kingdom of France as a post-mortem prize for allowing the United States of America to ever exist, making it the most powerful economic democracy* with ground-breaking innovation, financial power, thinkers instead of being a slave oversea territory of the UK. n nThank you very much. n n*after the European Union
too scared to award the Peace Prize to an Egyptian Coptic Christian? n nI had a fantasy that the surprise winner is Malala Yousefzai, because she may just change the arc of history (more than the EU) about the idea that girls deserve access to education instead of 'honor killings' and forced marriages that are no different from sex slavery. n nGuess I have to find out why the EU, but, for once, I agree with Boot: it was the USA and our military that changed the arc of Europe's bloody history that led to the possibility of the EU, which, by all accounts, is a case study in the failure of supra-national governance.