Hilariously,
Barack Obama has won the Nobel Peace Prize. Previous winners
include Kofi Annan (2001), Jimmy Carter (2002), and Al Gore
(2007); the gag in my headline (swiped from PJ
Doland) isn't really much of a gag. The Peace Prize is quite
often nothing more than the vehicle through which the mandarins
of transnational progressivism express their support for
opponents of American hegemony in general and Bush in particular.
If Obama doesn't turn down the prize, as several
commentators
are
urging, the signal will be that the American president is
perfectly happy being a Carter-like posterboy for American
weakness.
