On Sat, 28 May 2011, John Young wrote:
Surely giving Obama the Nobel Peace Prize before he had done anything except talk about what he would do to end persistent warmaking must indicate that all he had to do was talk the talk to arouse delirium for Woodrow Wilson method acting.
Yeah, I've had a lot of discussions about how dumb the NPP voters must feel at this point. Awarding him a prize for things he was promising to do, before he actually *did* ANYTHING, was (to use Ted's words), "stupid".
Talkers, aka diplomats and scholars and national security experts and judges and lawyers and peace-niks and anti-war NGOs and foreign policy tanks and RANDs and anti-WMDs, provide excellent amply rewarded apologia for war-threat beneficiaries like themselves. Terrorism Allah-sent to head off Cold War winddown. Precisely.
Reminds of the comsec-loving greeders who warn of cyber insecurity
<"CyberExpert"> OMG! We're facing the Digital Pearl Harbor!!! Waaaaaa.... </"Cyber-Expert>
and privacy invasion and soul losing who pray and lobby for the protection money to never end.
And under Obama, it never will. That we can spend hundreds of billions of dollars on foreign aid, and more hundreds of billions of dollars on Wall Street Aid, and *trillions* on Halliburton & Company Aid, without spending anything significant right here in River City (while simulatneously subjecting the already destitute to "austerity measures") galls me no end.
Question is, what classified threat was inrrefutably delivered to Obama (as with predecessors) about himself and his family, aka the nation, that caused a change of heart and mind.
Who says there was a change of heart and mind? What proof do we have that this wasn't just another professional election player doing an incredibly good PR fuck on all of us?
Courage is hardly contagious, trickery and deception are viralent.
All too true. //Alif -- I hate Missouri. Land of the free, home of the perjuriously deranged.