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Serious Discussions and Debates / Re: Debate: Does Obama deserve the Nobel peace prize?
« on: October 12, 2009, 08:27:26 pm »
Should he have won the award? Well, on one hand he wasn't responsible for spilling the Vietnam War into Cambodia like Henry Kissinger, didn't facilitate numerous terrorist attacks against Israel like Yasser Arafat, so he probably shouldn't have won the award, unlike Kissinger and Arafat. On the other hand, Obama didn't lead a lifelong non-violent struggle to free the Indian people from British Colonialism like Gandhi (not a Nobel peace prize winner), so Obama gets major Nobel points for that.
In the end, it's what Obama HOPES to do that matters with the Nobel Committee. Leading up the decision, the Obama Administration has not only kept Guantanamo Bay open, not changed the troop withdraw schedule from Iraq, and continued threats on Iran, but is actually considering escalating the Afghanistan war by adding another 40,000 troops... this plan is obviously in line with Kissinger and Arafat, not Gandhi. Keeping with precedent, I agree with the Nobel Committee's decision to award President Obama with the Nobel Peace Prize.
In the end, it's what Obama HOPES to do that matters with the Nobel Committee. Leading up the decision, the Obama Administration has not only kept Guantanamo Bay open, not changed the troop withdraw schedule from Iraq, and continued threats on Iran, but is actually considering escalating the Afghanistan war by adding another 40,000 troops... this plan is obviously in line with Kissinger and Arafat, not Gandhi. Keeping with precedent, I agree with the Nobel Committee's decision to award President Obama with the Nobel Peace Prize.