Taking a look at who didn’t win the prize is more revealing than looking at those who won.
The Politicization of Peace
By Bruce Walker
Few spectacles so clearly show the politicization of life than the surreally silly award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Obama. The Nobel Prize has long been a reflection of the whims of those who run political correctness. The politicization of peace extends beyond just the Nobel Prize. The very day that the Nobel Committee announced its choice of Obama, Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin miraculously “discovered,” eight years after American forces invaded Afghanistan that “If the U.S. troops left – the country would collapse. We’d go into civil war.” The about face on our domestic peace movement reflects only who now commands American forces. Benjamin likes Obama, so her doctrinaire commitment to peace goes wobbly when Obama is Commander-in-Chief.
Truth, Lies and In Between 