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France iearn
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Awarding the Nobel Peace to a president: to end wars? to limit nuclear weapons?
October 18, 2009 - 10:59 AM
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Like Mr. Obama, the surprise to see the Prize given to a newly appointed president was real.
Yet, we might think that there are reasons to give it to him, at the head of the USA.
He may be compelled to solve conflicts and stop the role the American Army has played since WWII.
Let's hope he wil be helped in his enterprise by those who chose him and his administration.
Annie (France)
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Re: Awarding the Nobel Peace to a president: to end wars? to limit nuclear weapons?
October 18, 2009 - 03:22 PM
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Hey, i want to also join the others who believe that the awarding of the Nobel prise is too soon for a president who has more to do especially towards environmental protection.
is it that the award has started loosing it quality because there are so many other deserving persons around the world apart from whosoever it was awarded to this year.
so i am not impress by such award and let the organisers do more research the next time.
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Re: Awarding the Nobel Peace to a president: to end wars? to limit nuclear weapons?
October 28, 2009 - 08:17 AM
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french wrote:
Yet, we might think that there are reasons to give it to him, at the head of the USA.
He may be compelled to solve conflicts and stop the role the American Army has played since WWII.
Let's hope he wil be helped in his enterprise by those who chose him and his administration.
I dont see why being Head of State should make Obama any more eligable for the Peace Prize than anyone else, afterall if all US presidents got the prize then it would have been discredited long ago by the more warlike presidents; LBJ, Nixon, Reagan, Bush.
That Obama may be compelled to solve conflicts also does not seem to me to be a good reason to give him the peace prize, afterall this could be said of many other world leaders, why not give it to Chinese Premier Hu. He has considerably more weight with many of the troublemaker governments such as North Korea, Iran, Sudan than the US president does so surely he should get the prize to encourage him to create peace.
Obama seems to have been given the prize due to having made some speaches, talk is however cheap, and in the world of international relations is often not followed up or runs into reality. It is quite likely that Obama will be no more sucessful than previous presidents who have tried to create peace such as Clinton. If this is the case then the Nobel prize has simply discredited itself.
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