Huh?
So, Barack “Let’s bomb Pakistan” Obama has been given the Nobel Peace Prize.
Let’s review his record, shall we?
In the days leading up to his inauguration, Israel was in the midst of a flat-out massacre of civilians in Gaza. Obama said nothing. There was no doubt, as it was ongoing, what was happening. If there had been any doubts, those ought to have been resolved by the recent report on war crimes committed during the Gaza offensive. Instead of being instructed by that report, Obama’s administration has condemned it as unbalanced. Of course it is unbalanced! Most of the crimes were committed by one side! The only way to make it “balanced” would have been to distort the facts, which is what Obama does every time he worries about Iran’s hypothetical future nukes while ignoring Israel-s all-too-real, already-existing stockpile of nuclear bombs.
Which brings us to the next point: War-mongering. Last week, Obama raised false alarms about Iran that sounded suspiciously like the false alarms Bush raised about Iraq.
But war-mongering is not as bad as actually perpetrating unprovoked warfare, which Obama also has done. Immediately upon taking office, Obama authorized and escalated drone attacks across the Afghan border into Pakistan, thereby inflaming tensions in that nuclear state to a crisis point for which World Food Program employees recently paid with their lives.
Let me get this straight: When Palestinian renegades protest Israeli occupation of their land by launching rickety, hand-made rockets across the border into Israel, killing nobody, that is a war crime the equivalent of the Israel army launching mass reprisals in civilian areas, killing thousands. But when the Obama-led U.S. military lobs bombs across a border into a country that has not aggressed the U.S., killing hundreds of civilians and escalating armed conflict within that country, that is… behavior worthy of a Nobel Peace Prize?
And then there is Afghanistan itself, a country that the U.S. attacked without provocation seven years ago and still occupies by force today. Much has been made of Obama’s purported opposition to the war in Iraq, but little is said of his quite explicit support for that ongoing atrocity.
It’s just… I can’t … [descent into incoherent sputtering].
I truly cannot imagine what those Peace Prize people were thinking. They’ve made a mockery of the award, forever tarnishing it for those who truly earned it.
