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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: Chris_ on October 12, 2009, 07:35:03 AM
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Nobel Peace Prize Decision Seen As Attempt to Steer U.S. Policies
CNSNews.com) – A Norwegian committee’s decision to award the 2009 Nobel peace prize to President Obama continues to make waves around the world, with some of the focus shifting away from the appropriateness of the choice to the implications for future U.S. policy.
The Norwegian government has confirmed that Obama will travel to Oslo to receive the award at a ceremony on December 10. He is the first sitting U.S. president to win the award since Woodrow Wilson in 1919, the year he founded the League of Nations. Wilson had been president for six years.
Whether applauding or criticizing the 2009 decision, one theme evident in international reaction is the view that the award is an “advance†or “down payment†– an attempt to prod the United States further down the path that Obama is following.
Even before the surprise decision was announced Friday, a close observer of the process – without predicting that Obama would win – surmised that this was precisely what the five prize committee judges had in mind.
“They want the prize to have an impact on things that are about to happen and want to affect events,†Kristian Berg Harpviken, head of the International Peace Institute in Oslo, told Reuters.
Our office moonbat was practically foaming at the mouth last week over the idea that the Nobel committee might be political. :whatever:
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