Nobel Peace becomes an appeasers prize
This editorial in the NY Sun seems to cover all the bases; only the diseased left thinks otherwise. Why? It ends with victory.
The Next Nobel
Vice President Gore is being mooted for the Nobel Peace Prize, but our nominee is General Petraeus. This is only a slight departure from our annual editorial calling for the Norwegians to award the prize to GI Joe. We’ve been advancing that idea ever since reading about it in an essay by Neil Kressel, a professor in New Jersey. It has seemed to us that the American GI is the greatest force for peace in the world today, and we say that without the slightest bit of irony. GI Joe and GI Jane always go overseas for reasons not of conquest but of liberation, to secure the hope of democracy, and always with the intent of returning home. [snip]
Archived in: Iran, IraqIt is true that General Petraeus doesn’t seem to hate President Bush, which in recent years has seemed to be one of the pre-requisites for winning the prize. [snip]
No, General Petraeus is just trying to save the nation of Iraq from the competing death cults of fanatical Shiism and fanatical Sunnism. [snip]
Lest we sound cynical about the prize itself, let us just say that we recognize it has had many magnificent recipients, from Theodore Roosevelt and Menachem Begin and Henry Kissinger and Elie Wiesel to the founder of the Grameen Bank, Muhammad Yunus, the Iranian human rights lawyer, Shirin Ebadi, and the Burmese freedom fighter, Aung San Suu Kyi. General Petraeus’s accomplishments are in the tradition of George C. Marshall, Lech Walesa, and Andrei Sakharov. These men did not seek peace at any price or without any cost. They took enormous personal risks. They stood on principle. They understood that true peace is earned in victory.
October 10, 2007 at 7:33 am | Trackback
7 comments
Before us and always after us, the words
“Forgive them for they know not what they do.”
test our faith…but there is resolution,
and it is proportionately palpable and precious to our individual choice.
Everything else seems to have been sullied - why not the Nobel Peace Prize? If Gore wins one I will certainly lose much more respect for that award, and quite frankly I already question past choices for winners. I am also sure Nobel would also be spinning in his grave over this one!
The Nobel Committee is simply another hardened scab on the sick body of Europeanism. Jimmy Carter and Yassar Arafat shared a Nobel, remember. They didn’t recognize the grotesqueries then. Why now?
You’ve got to be kidding?
Petraeus is the lapdog of the most corrupt, warmongering pack of thieves ever to have graced the hallowed halls of this republic. I was in the military. Anyone who has been, knows the job of the military is to kill people. Not “build nations” or solve political problems. To kill people. And the better they are at killing, or getting others to kill, the higher up in the organization they go (to General for example).
Wake up.
Thanks PP. I was in the military too. So were two of the other commentators here, both officers, one Special Forces. How may people did you kill, Prescott? Were you combat arms? Or infantry as it used to be known, or rifleman as other branches call it.
By the way hear of the Marshall Plan, PP? When you’re done with that, tell me about Petraeus’s approach to insurgencies.
A REMF Hotspur!
Sounds like one. Very Rear.