From my far-flung network of people who send me emails: "if you need proof that there's a liberal bias, just note that they have a Nobel Peace Prize, but there is no Nobel War Prize. Outrageous."
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12 Oct 2007 03:28 pm
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Yeah! That pansy-ass armaments manufacturer who came up with the prize, Alfred Nobel, was obviously some kind of hippy peacenik.
I thought the story behind the Nobel Peace Prize is that Alfred Nobel established it as a gesture of atonement for having invented dynamite...
Thanks a lot, Mr. Explain The Joke.
It's too bad there's no Nobel War Prize. If there were, Kissinger could have won both the War and Peace prizes. At least he would have deserved the War Prize.
war prize: if the criteria were ability to achieve military / strategic goals that far outstripped one's resources, presumably some tiny bunch of fanatics would win easily:
"For successful application of heinous and barbarous tactics in the service of noisome objectives, the Nobel Committee gives the War prize this year to the Al Qaeda in Iraq!"
maybe this would be more effective than the Peace prize: people would be appalled by the notion, but also would realise that if Al Qaeda is the best of something, then that something must be dreadful. hence - no more wars!
refute this if you dare.
No Nobel War Prize? Isn't that what we have the International Criminal Court for?
Saddam was the most recent recipient. His prize was to get hand over to Mahdi army thugs who promptly hung him.
Milosevic got to expire in jail.
Pinochet was placed under house arrest, but got out of it b/c he was on the Free World's side in the Cold War.
Noble War Prize = enemy war criminal du jour
Saddam was the most recent recipient. His prize was to get handed over to Mahdi army thugs who promptly hung him.
Milosevic got to expire in jail.
Pinochet was placed under house arrest, but got out of it b/c he was on the Free World's side in the Cold War.
Why is it that the right has come to think not of war as an occasionally necessary evil, but as a positive good that deserves to be rewarded? Have they been watching the movie if...?
Set of steak knives.
It's a great joke precisely because what the right really wants is for the Peace Prize to reward war. Hence Rush Limbaugh's call for it to be awarded to Bush and Patraeus.
When they are accusing the Nobel committee of a left-wing bias, what they are actually mad about is that this prize is as respected as it is and rewards people for favoring things that the right wing generally does not favor.
The truth, of course, is that a conservative certainly can win the Peace Prize, if he or she accomplishes something that merits it (or even arguably merits it, e.g., Kissinger). The reason conservatives don't win it more often is because they don't spend a lot of time pushing for peace.
Wait, I'm confused. I thought conservatives got upset if you suggested that they are "pro-war." I mean, their whole schtick in the run-up to Iraq is that they hate war as much as anyone, but that only they had the guts to face up to do this horrible thing that had to be done.
Doesn't clamoring for a "war prize" kind of undermine that entire narrative?
"I thought the story behind the Nobel Peace Prize is that Alfred Nobel established it as a gesture of atonement for having invented dynamite..."
Nobel had nothing to atone for; dynamite was invented as an industrial explosive (for use in mining, tunneling, etc.) and it saved countless lives because it was more stable than previous alternatives that blew up at inopportune times.
Anyhow, this idea that "liberal" = "anti-war" is a novel one. FDR and LBJ, for example, were both liberal and pro-war.
Certainly no one in the US high command deserves a Nobel War Prize--their performances have ranged from lackluster to horrifyingly incompetent.
I doubt there would have been a worthy recipient since Vo Nguyen Giap
Giap was real genius. He got his head handed to him by an American Lieutenant Colonel (John Paul Vann) in '72. He only won the Vietnam War two years after we packed up and left, and cut off aid and air support to the South.
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Posted by bob | October 12, 2007 3:37 PM