If there was any doubt with Henry Kissinger’s Nobel Peace Prize award in 1973 (while he committed actions on Cambodia and Viet Nam that should warrant war crime charges) that the Nobel Committee had lost their clout; that doubt was solidified to solid understanding with the current announcement awarding President Obama the Nobel Peace Prize, for Obama’s efforts to "rid the world of nuclear weapons".
Let’s review the process here, shall we? Obama had to be nominated to the Nobel Committee by the end of January of this year in order to be considered. By that time, Obama had done nothing along these lines, he wasn’t even President yet! Sorry, got that wrong. He had been President of the USA for two weeks. As for his stint in congress, there isn’t a shade of nuclear weapons reduction in his actions.
To put it short, the President hasn’t done much more than wag his tongue at a few international speeches and all of that was after he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Let’s look at the President’s peace record outside of a handful of speeches geared toward nuclear disarmament: we are still at war in Afghanistan and Iraq. Troops levels are being raised in Afghanistan, while there is no sign of leaving Iraq anytime in the near future. By Obama’s decision, we’ve now entered militarily into Pakistan. There is still talk about invading Iran for "creating nuclear weapons" that no one can prove exists, or that Iran is even capable of creating.
Where is the peace in that?
The once lofty Nobel Peace Prize has been made into a mockery by the very committee designed to keep Nobel’s intentions valid and profound. Form has taken hold over function and a once important award has been reduced to a mockery of its former glory.
