Obama awarded Nobel Peace prize. Ah... a development that is so absurd it almost defies comment? Possibly. The world is collapsing into farce. Eventually some cunning, calculating, cold hearted bastard is going to exploit that weakness and bad things are going to happen - whether it's a year from now, twenty years from now, I dunno, but it will happen. Sorry people but electing the black guy president doesn't change the fact that the species is defined by conflict, not peace.
Didn't Arafat win a Nobel Peace prize? Quick search... yes, 1994. Well, it all makes sense then.
update: as many are pointing out this absurdly unwarranted act of blatant politicking on the part of the Nobel committee may end up doing more harm than good to Obama in so much as it reaffirms the image of him as more celebrity than qualified leader and of being the favoured child of internationalists who dislike the US and would enjoy nothing more than to see it reduced. It also complicates his decision on Afghanistan: if he rejects the recommendations of his military his motivations and his character will be judged with even more scrutiny as people wonder if this is him dutifully obliging a global, left wing elite; yet if he escalates, this silly award will be used to stoke the fires of anti-Americanism - the Nobel committee has essentially handed a perfect platform to the enemy from which to hurl rocks at Lady Liberty by offering up a false ideal of peace so that when America inevitably betrays those airy dreams its infamy will seem that much more repugnant. It's truly a moronic decision on the part of the committee - I suppose the only people who prosper here are those who view the idea of a post nation state internationalism as unworkable and naive - certainly would seem to be the case if it proffers up pompous idiocy of this sort.
