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Obama winning Nobel Peace prize wasn't a stretch, it was a farce.

• shabda 12y ago
  Mr. Kissinger has won the nobel prize. Its going to be hard to top that.
  • privong 12y ago
    And Yasser Arafat; there have been many contentious Peace Prize recipients[0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Peace_Prize#Criticism_of_individual_conferments https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Peace_Prize#Criticism_of...
  • echion 12y ago
    Kissinger won it jointly for a concrete agreement ( http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1973/index.html http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1973/... ). The rationale for Obama arguably had no such concrete achievement: "The Committee endorses Obama's appeal that "Now is the time for all of us to take our share of responsibility for a global response to global challenges."' . The full rationale is at http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2009/press.html http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2009/... .
    • shabda 12y ago
      Kissinger was awarded the NPP in 73. Bangladesh Liberation War happened in 71. Kissinger's support of Pakistan was a direct processor to and some would say the enabler of the atrocities committed during the Bangladesh Liberation War. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Kissinger#1971_India.E2.80.93Pakistan_War http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Kissinger#1971_India.E2.8...) Some would say that this was due to real-politic, but its entirely reasonable to suggest that this was due to Kissinger's personal hatred of Indira Gandhi(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Kissinger#cite_note-33 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Kissinger#cite_note-33) More than a million civilians were killed and more than 30 million civilians were displaced during this genocide. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_Bangladesh_genocide http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_Bangladesh_genocide Kissinger's support to the Pakistan Army was in spite of the US's own officials aware of and dissenting to the policy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archer_Blood#The_Blood_telegram http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archer_Blood#The_Blood_telegram All this was well known when Mr. Kissinger was awarded the prize. That award was unreasonable. "Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Prize"
  • pknerd 12y ago
    So did Shimon Perez
  • tim333 12y ago
    Putin was a nominee this time round. I think that could have done it.