http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/10/09/president-barack-obama-wins-nobel-peace-prize/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091009/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_obama_nobel_analysis_1
From the UK: "Comment: absurd decision on Obama makes a mockery of the Nobel peace prize" http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6867711.ece
From Canada: "Nobel Prize Joke" http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/15598
and "‘Peace Prize to Obama - big mistake by Nobel committee’ http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/15593
He was nominated 12 days into office. Ironic that he wins this on the very day he's meeting with his war cabinet about what to do with Afghanistan.
Of course rational people are realizing that this is more a vote against Bush.
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"Still, some said the award came too soon, in light of the lack of tangible progress toward the vital goals of bringing peace to the Middle East, persuading Iran to give up its nuclear ambitions and improving relations with North Korea.
“The award is premature,” said Eugene Rogan, director of the Middle East Center at Oxford University in England. “He hasn’t done anything yet. But he’s made clear from the start of his presidency his commitment to promote peace. No doubt the Nobel committee hopes the award will enhance his moral authority to advance the cause of peace while he’s still president.”
Reaction was far more muted in some Islamic countries. In Pakistan’s central city of Multan, radical Islamic leader Hanif Jalandhri said he was neither happy nor surprised by Obama’s award.
“But I do hope that Obama will make efforts to work for peace, and he will try to scrap the policies of (former U.S. President George) Bush who put the world peace in danger,” said Jalandhri, the secretary general of a group that oversees 12,500 seminaries. “This prize has tripled Obama’s responsibilities, and we can hope that he will try to prove through his actions that he deserved this honor.”
http://features.csmonitor.com/globalnews/2009/10/09/obamas-nobel-peace-prize-hailed-and-questioned/
And speaking of Afghanistan...pigs are flying
'Code Pink' rethinks its call for Afghanistan pullout
In Afghanistan, the US women's activist group finds that their Afghan counterparts want US troop presence – as well as more reconstruction.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/1006/p06s10-wosc.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091009/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_obama_nobel_analysis_1
From the UK: "Comment: absurd decision on Obama makes a mockery of the Nobel peace prize" http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6867711.ece
From Canada: "Nobel Prize Joke" http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/15598
and "‘Peace Prize to Obama - big mistake by Nobel committee’ http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/15593
He was nominated 12 days into office. Ironic that he wins this on the very day he's meeting with his war cabinet about what to do with Afghanistan.
Of course rational people are realizing that this is more a vote against Bush.
======
Another article
"Still, some said the award came too soon, in light of the lack of tangible progress toward the vital goals of bringing peace to the Middle East, persuading Iran to give up its nuclear ambitions and improving relations with North Korea.
“The award is premature,” said Eugene Rogan, director of the Middle East Center at Oxford University in England. “He hasn’t done anything yet. But he’s made clear from the start of his presidency his commitment to promote peace. No doubt the Nobel committee hopes the award will enhance his moral authority to advance the cause of peace while he’s still president.”
Reaction was far more muted in some Islamic countries. In Pakistan’s central city of Multan, radical Islamic leader Hanif Jalandhri said he was neither happy nor surprised by Obama’s award.
“But I do hope that Obama will make efforts to work for peace, and he will try to scrap the policies of (former U.S. President George) Bush who put the world peace in danger,” said Jalandhri, the secretary general of a group that oversees 12,500 seminaries. “This prize has tripled Obama’s responsibilities, and we can hope that he will try to prove through his actions that he deserved this honor.”
http://features.csmonitor.com/globalnews/2009/10/09/obamas-nobel-peace-prize-hailed-and-questioned/
And speaking of Afghanistan...pigs are flying
'Code Pink' rethinks its call for Afghanistan pullout
In Afghanistan, the US women's activist group finds that their Afghan counterparts want US troop presence – as well as more reconstruction.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/1006/p06s10-wosc.html
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