Letter to the Editor
Real peace
Published Tuesday, October 20, 2009
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To the editor:
President Obama is to be congratulated for his Nobel Peace Prize. His public relations people are doing better than Bush’s people did in making him and the United States look good internationally. Yet Jesus taught that a person’s virtue is judged by what he does, not by what he says. So somebody please answer the following sample questions:
• Where’s Obama’s order to negotiate U.S. reentry to the Nuclear Arms Reduction Treaty, from which Bush withdrew us?
• Where’s Obama’s order to hire more translators for foreign intelligence so we aren’t puppetized by our “allies” concerning evidence of threats and problems? Remember the stacks of untranslated intelligence in Arabic proven to be lying around up to Sept. 11, 2001?
• Where’s Obama’s order to negotiate expanding the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty to create open international inspection of the exact numbers of nuclear weapons held by all signatories (United States, Russia, China, France, Britain, Japan, Iran, Brazil, etc.)?
• Where’s Obama’s order to freeze all military and financial aid to Pakistan, Israel and India — who all provably possess nuclear weapons but are refusing international invitations to be signatories to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty?
• History testifies that failing military operations, including those lasting too long like Afghanistan, always ask for more men and material. Initially poor or incompetent intelligence, leadership decisions and operation planning are either finally corrected or perpetuated and even worsened to make a bigger fiasco. Where’s Obama’s order demanding unbiased proof that military operations won’t continue to use the incompetent thinking and foreign-relations prejudices of the big-shot civilians and “military experts” that have got us where we are?
• Where’s Obama’s encouragement of Congress and the American people to ask about such issues to help America organize and build peace, instead of desperately fighting and warring for it?
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I wish the responses to this letter would be unpredictable.
But they won't be.
Same-Same.
From both sides.
Yawn.
TAC -- OK, I hate to be predictable as you say, but to a degree, I think he's right. Many of these decisions would go a long way in moving towards a more peaceful world. But Obama would of course be attacked to an even greater extent than he already is as an appeaser and a second Jimmy Carter were any of this to occur.
A real man shoots first and asks questions later, right? That's why people like Gandhiji and the Dalai Lama should be getting the peace prize (as they did), and not sitting presidents. Peace is a noble (Nobel) pursuit, but realpolitik has also shown that often, it's only achievable after you bomb the hell out of the opposition.
We Americans don't want a president who thinks about peace, the causes of war and works towards a thoughtful co-operation with others to end war. In the end we throw up our hands say war will always be with us and elect presidents who promise to use a big stick. Obama was an anomaly but he learned quickly Americans are afraid of working for peace because they tie security to military toughness.
"We Americans don't want a president who thinks about peace, the causes of war and works towards a thoughtful co-operation with others..."
There will always be "bullies" in the world. Some people accuse President Bush of being one of them but I would counter that President Bush did not have multiple mass graves running into the thousands in his own country. Further, many if not most of the "thousands of dead Iraqis" that many of his detractors accuse him of were mostly killed by the Insurgents of Al Quaida.
The danger of one who "seeks peace in our time" is that he may turn out to be a spiritual decendent of Neville Chamberlain (who only succeeded in 'stalling' the Nazi Jugernaut for a few months at most)...
From what I hear Obama is up for a daytime Emmy for his appearances on Fox News, or was it for Dancing with the Stars.
Like him or not,..Cheney was decisive on foriegn policy, and you knew what direction he was going.
Your letter says it all for this president.
We will be in a nasty war on the homefront before this president is through.
There's no money in peace.
End of story.
Hey, Wheres is the love?
Peace, without freedom, is always attainable.
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."
--Winston Churchill
Whether he deserved the prize can be up for debate, but people need to realize this is not a popularity prize, nor is it even awarded by an American institution (as most people believe, it would seem).
It's in honor of Alfred Nobel- and according to his will, the Peace Prize should be awarded to the person who:
“..during the preceding year [...] shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses."
(Excerpt from the "Will of Alfred Nobel". Nobel Foundation)
The Scandinavian Nobel foundation felt he deserved it, whether or not Americans like it.
I forget. How did Alfred Nobel amass his fortune?
TBD- it is pretty ironic, but people change, especially if they can afford to. But the prizes have done quite a bit of good, I would say.
all of you read that ?
It is no longer a prize, it is a bribe.
Gypsy for life- thanks for the information but I dont see where Obama has actually done any of that? Less troops? No. More fraternity? I have yet to see it in real life terms, so again, No.
If they understood that he has helped move Americans into a state of survival mode with less time to think of how we are slowly lossing our civil liberties as we slide toward one world economy, well then, okay. I can see it. That would be great for fraternity, give him a prize.
I agree. Mr. Obama's accomplishments are legendary. His actions tell the story. When I think about the things he has done, the way he has brought people together, his gentle humility and his kind conduct toward those who stand opposed to him, I have no wonder why he received this prize. Think about the monuments to peace and prosperity he left behind in Illinois as a state senator, where his district stands as a testimony to his hard work. The prosperity and peace he left behind is awe-inspiring. In the U.S. Senate, the legislation he penned is still the model for competent leadership focusing on the liberty and freedom of the American citizen. Whenever I hear someone mentioning the Obama Act of 2007, my eyes tear up with the thought of the man's intellect. As president, he has managed in a few short months to bring us together as a community after many years of division. His far-reaching vision for the country and the world has been stated clearly and effectively. Obama is the man of the moment. History will certainly judge him alongside Ghandhi and Dr. King as one of the greats.
As a current eunuch who was raised by a pack of wolves until I was stolen by gypsies at the age of eleven, I can sympathize with TAC for yawning. While I know of no physiological reasoning behind it, my first adoptive parents often did it at times of stress. My gypsy parents knew no stress, as they frolicked with mirthful bliss while sucking nitrous balloons on the railroad tracks by the Omni in Atlanta, hoping for that miracle ticket. Why am I now a eunuch now, you ask? Because I want TAC to yawn no more.
Redpoll... Excellent satire!!!!
That Yassar Arafat guy that won the prize, there's a heck of a peaceful man. At least now he is, now that he's 6 feet under.
Dipper,
I predict that there will soon be peace in LA. What do you think?
Pinhead-
I have to admit that it doesn't look good. Maybe I can tell folks that the "P" on my new hat is for "peace", in honor of the prize.
War is the health of the state. Peace is more profitable than war, but the profits are diffused among the masses whereas war is profitable for the concentrated elite when (like a virus) they hijack the govt.
Ya can't complain the gummint is out of control by providing lavish welfare bennies and similtaneously approve that it is powerful enough to have a lavish military.
And yes, a defense budget rivaling all the other countries in the world put together is crazy lavish.
In fact it is as psychotic as some end-of-the-roader with a basement of weapons.
Welfare bloat parallels military bloat and vice versa. Thus liberals and conservatives are equally to blame for the mess. Both are merely different sides of the same coin of moral and national bankruptcy.
Now please go back to blaming each other to avoid your similar contributions to the destruction of America.
Here, let me help: Bush was a war monger. Obama is a poser. Rah rah rah. America # 1. Ooga ooga. Pax Americana. Hello Rome.
...and that concludes this week's recital of "A Self-Righteous Appraisal of Everybody Else", by Mr. Rick Hoegberg. Thank you, have a good evening, and drive safely.
Yeah, everyone loves us now. Guess what? The only thing that has changed is that the world has dusted off the "Kick Me" sign that they once used on Jimmy Carter. Obama wears it well
TheBigDipper: '...and that concludes this week's recital of "A Self-Righteous Appraisal of Everybody Else", by Mr. Rick Hoegberg. Thank you, have a good evening, and drive safely.'
Hey I have to admit that's actually pretty funny :) I guess I went over the top. Apologies. Can I plead frustration that there is no real significant alternative being offered to the failure presecription? Both major sides of most debates share more than they differ and it is this shared endorsement of coercive collectivism that drives the US ever down. IM(now more )HO
Yasser Arafat and Al Gore got Nobels too, the award hasn't meant anything to me in years.
It's good that people can now see what's been obvious for years.
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