By Ben Stein on 10.15.07 @ 12:08AM
The real winners are at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
Let's make this really, really simple. The Nobel Peace Prize
Committee gave the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize to Al Gore and about
3,300 UN bureaucrats and professors who worked on the chi-chi,
politically correct, ultra-hip topic of global warming. As far as I
know, none of the 3,300 ever had to put his or her life on the
line. Mostly, they worked in air-conditioned classrooms and labs
and were well paid. Al Gore has made an enormous business of his
opposition to the oil companies. He has made literally tens of
millions from his crusade (far, far more than any oil company
executive presently working ).
I have an idea of who should have won the Nobel Peace Prize: the
American combat soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan and their
families. They have put up more to stop terrorism, save lives,
bring peace to an embattled part of the world, and offer hope to
innocent civilians in a large region of the world than Al Gore and
his scientists could even imagine.
Your humble servant spent last Tuesday at the amputee ward of
Walter Reed Army Medical Center. I think the Nobel Committee might
have wanted -- instead of wading in with their big feet into a
political campaign -- to honor the men and women who have
volunteered to be without their natural limbs for the rest of their
lives for the children of Iraq and Afghanistan -- and for all of
the peace and freedom loving people of the world.
To think of Al Gore and his 20,000 square-foot home, and his
glib comments on late night talk shows, and his private jets, and
then to think of the grunt getting his legs blown off and lying in
a hospital bed with ten tubes in him -- and then to think one gets
the Nobel Peace Prize and one is ignored by everyone except his
friends and his family -- well, it just sort of makes me want to
throw up.
Oh, wait. Didn't Yasser Arafat and Jimmy Carter get that prize,
too? Hey, is there maybe a pattern here?
topics:
Business, Global Warming, Iraq, Oil
