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That the Nobel Peace Prize is not a serious award should have been evident when Obama won it.
by g232089 3y ago
That the Nobel Peace Prize is not a serious award should have been evident when Obama won it.
- willcipriano 3y ago2 wars when he was sworn in, 7 when he left. I'm pretty sure he is the peace prize recipient who started the most wars.
- perihelions 3y ago- "I'm pretty sure he is the peace prize recipient who started the most wars" Henry Kissinger, 1973? edit: I think Wilson (1919 Nobel; 1913-1921 presidency) is also a contender, if anyone has the patience/stamina to count all his conflicts and classify them. (I.e. what counts as "starting a war" and what's better described as a continuation of an existing conflict). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency_of_Woodrow_Wilson#Foreign_policy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency_of_Woodrow_Wilson#F... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_Wars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_Wars
- willcipriano 3y agoIf we go off the war crimes outlined in Hitchen's "The Trial of Henry Kissinger" > Hitchens presents Kissinger's involvement in a series of alleged war crimes in Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Bangladesh, Chile, Cyprus and East Timor. They are tied for the record for number of nations they committed war crimes in. Although if you include CIA backed coups I think Obama pulls ahead.
- srean 3y agoI'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize -- Steven Wright
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- catlover76 3y agoAt the risk of further encouraging you to think that there is validity to anything you regurgitate, what do you think were the "7 wars"? And how did Obama "start" them?
- cdogl 3y ago“When Kissinger won the Nobel peace prize, satire died” - Tom Lehrer, long ago