I was dismayed when I heard Obama was given the Nobel Pace Prize. A shock, really, to think that a president carrying on two wars would be given a peace prize. Until I recalled that Woodrow Wilson, Theodor Roosevelt, and Henry Kissinger had all received Nobel Peace prize. The Nobel Committee is famous for its superficial estimates, won over by rhetoric and by empty gestures, and ignoring blatant violations of world pace.
Yes, Wilson gets credit for the League of Nations- that ineffectual body which did nothing to prevent war. But he had bombarded the Mexican coast, sent troops to occupy Haití and the Dominican Republic and brouht the U.S into the slaughterhous of Europe in the fist Word War- surely among stupid and deadly wars at the top of the list.
Sure, Theodore Roosevelt brokered a peace between Japan and Russia. But he was a lover of war, ho participated in the U.S concquest of Cuba, pretending to liberate it from Spain while fastening U.S chains on that tiny island. [...]
Oh, yes te Committee saw fit to give a peace prize to Henry Kissinger, because he signed the final peace agreement ending the war in Vietnam, of chich he had been of de architects. Kissinger, who obsequiously went along with Nixon's expansion of the war, with de bombing of peasant villages in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. [...]
People should not be given a peace prize on the basis of promises they have made (as with Obama, an eloquent maker of promises) but on the basis of actual accomplishments towards ending war, and Obama has continued deadly, inhuman military action in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.
The Nobel Peace Committee should retire, and turn over its huge funds to some international peace organization which is not awed by stardom and rhetoric, and wich has some understanding of history.
Howard Zinn
Lezione di Storia delle Americhe
Yes, Wilson gets credit for the League of Nations- that ineffectual body which did nothing to prevent war. But he had bombarded the Mexican coast, sent troops to occupy Haití and the Dominican Republic and brouht the U.S into the slaughterhous of Europe in the fist Word War- surely among stupid and deadly wars at the top of the list.
Sure, Theodore Roosevelt brokered a peace between Japan and Russia. But he was a lover of war, ho participated in the U.S concquest of Cuba, pretending to liberate it from Spain while fastening U.S chains on that tiny island. [...]
Oh, yes te Committee saw fit to give a peace prize to Henry Kissinger, because he signed the final peace agreement ending the war in Vietnam, of chich he had been of de architects. Kissinger, who obsequiously went along with Nixon's expansion of the war, with de bombing of peasant villages in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. [...]
People should not be given a peace prize on the basis of promises they have made (as with Obama, an eloquent maker of promises) but on the basis of actual accomplishments towards ending war, and Obama has continued deadly, inhuman military action in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.
The Nobel Peace Committee should retire, and turn over its huge funds to some international peace organization which is not awed by stardom and rhetoric, and wich has some understanding of history.
Howard Zinn
Lezione di Storia delle Americhe
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