I know this has nothing to do with this class, but since we were told to treat this as a journal and if we found something interesting, we should blog about it.
Here we go....
"President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in a stunning decision designed to encourage his initiatives to reduce nuclear arms, ease tensions with the Muslim world and stress diplomacy and cooperation rather than unilateralism." A quote from Yahoo and MSN news, shocks readers across America. I find this interesting because the nomination deadline for the Peace Prize is eight months before the announcement and a deadline of February 1st. How long has he been in office, 12 days, rougly 2 weeks. How can he do things deserving of a Peace Prize if he has only been in office for 12 days when he was nominated? Popularity contest? Sure.
Yes, he's been traveling across the globe apologizing to every country America has tensions with to promote peace and ease those tensions. Why was Pres. Obama nominated for this prize in less than a year after he took office? A quote from Nobel Committee head Thorbjoern Jagland said: “It was because we would like to support what he is trying to achieve”., hmm, PEACE... let's see if his actions has changed anything.
1.From Buffalo News (09Oct2009)
"A recent firefight in Kamdesh left eight Americans, three Afghans and an estimated 100 insurgents dead, according to NATO. Insurgents fought their way into the base during the battle, a rare breach of security that underscored how thinly manned the post was. It was the largest loss of U.S. life in a single skirmish in more than a year.
The Kamdesh base was largely burned down during the violence. But U.S. Master Sgt. Thomas Clementson said the damage did not affect the timing of the withdrawal and the U.S. was "just days" away from pulling out when the attack happened."
--The idea of slowly pulling out troops in Afghanistan backfired. After going in there in efforts of trying to stabilize the nation will all be for nothing after all the troops are gone. Slowly but surely more and more insurgents will get a chance of causing another incident like this.
2. From Yahoo News (09Oct2009)
"ALMATY, Kazakhstan – The reclusive Central Asian nation of Turkmenistan has denied entry to dozens of Peace Corps volunteers, the organization's country director said Friday.
"We had the paperwork in place, and they were approved to come, but the day before they were due to leave the U.S., we received a diplomatic note from the embassy saying that they would be invited next year, but not for this year," Leal said by telephone from the Turkmen capital, Ashgabat.
The Peace Corps, whose operations in Turkmenistan are devoted to teaching English and health education, is often viewed with suspicion by governments in former Soviet states.
In 2002, Russia expelled the organization and accused some of its volunteers of spying."
3. From The Huffington Post (16Jul2009)
"Other than a few hiccups, Russia was on its best behavior throughout both the U.S.-Russia and following G8 Summits. If we squinted our eyes just enough, it was possible to believe that we were looking at a normal and responsible world superpower, not a country with a smaller population than Bangladesh and a smaller GDP than Brazil.
For all the talk of "reset button diplomacy," by the time Obama left the continent, Russia had rebooted to default, exhibiting some of the most regrettable conduct and tragic events it has become known for over the past decade
-Keeping missiles in Kaliningrad and "flying to the brand new country of South Ossetia, formerly of Georgia, to warn Tbilisi not to provoke another invasion.", and women being abducted and found dead in a ditch somewhere just goes to show that Russia ignored Obama's attempt to establish "PEACE".
The Nobel Peace Prize committee just awarded this to a man that has acted to promote what they were supporting but caused diddly-squat. I thought awards like this are given to someone who has actually CHANGED something big across the world. Lets double check with Alfred Nobel's will, "According to Nobel's will, the Peace Prize should be awarded "to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses".
Point is PEACE HASN'T HAPPENED.
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