"For What?" I'll Tell You For What.

"For what?" That was the headline in the Drudge Report this morning, which linked to an AP story asking the same question about the surprise award of the Nobel Peace Prize to President Obama. That story has since been scrubbed off the internet

After acknowledging that The Supreme Leader has done nothing but talk since the day he got elected, the story speculates that "the award could be as much about issuing a slap at Obama's predecessor, former President George W. Bush, as about lauding Obama. Bush was reviled by the world for his cowboy diplomacy, Iraq war and snubbing of European priorities like global warming."

Well, as dismaying and churlish as that sounds, it wouldn't be the first time the Nobel Committee awarded the coveted (by some) prize to an American antagonist of George Bush. In recent years the prize has gone to our worst white president, Jimmy Carter, Bush's most outspoken critic. It has also been awarded to Mohamed El Baradei and Al Gore, whose "bodies of work," if not expressly antagonistic to Bush, are certainly "anti-Bush" in every sense of the term.

It's just another example of the disgrace the Nobel Committee and the joke the Peace Prize has become (Yassir Arafat, Desmond Tutu, the U.N. Peacekeeping Rapists...I mean Forces...and Kofi Annan have won this, too). Then again, the Nobel Prize's founder, Alfred Nobel, was no slouch in the joke department, having founded the prize out of guilt for inventing dynamite and other explosive and deadly instruments of war (the best kind, I reckon). His intent was to award the prize 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"

I guess he should have said "the person who talks the most about" fraternity between nations, because in that category Obama is the undisputed champ.

But this is about much more than dissing Bush and the American imperialists that the world apparently thinks are the greatest threat to mankind. It is a down payment on a reward that no doubt will come Obama's way when he actually succeeds in doing what the elites of Oslo have long hoped and prayed for. (Well, not prayed, exactly. Thats not exactly in the repertoire of the godless elites of Europe and the world.)

These fatuous arrogant bastards want nothing less than what Alfred Nobel wanted, a world where peace reigns and war is no more. In modern formulation, this means a powerless and nuke-less America that stands by and does nothing while dictators and thugs prance around the world stage lecturing the rest of us while at home their people are kept poor and wretched. Better yet, an America that helps to slit its own throat by trashing its currency, taxing its own citizens and industries in the name of "universal healthcare" and refusing to free itself of dependence on religious fanatics for energy.

But this doesn't describe what the international do-gooders and so-called lovers of Peace really want. Oh no. Just look at the list of prize recipients and you'll see a theme. Arafat. Carter. Annan. The U.N. Obama. What the elites of the world want more than anything else is a world without Israel. A world without Jews.

Barack Obama is the closest they have come to someone who could actualize that dream. In that sense the award was a canny and effective way of bringing the dream closer. By inflating Obama's already bloated sense of self-importance, the Prize will emboldened him to redouble his efforts to do all in his power to bring about the terrible vision of these world elites.

At first I thought awarding the Prize to Obama was a disgrace. Now I have concluded that it is
oddly appropriate.