Justifying His Nobel Prize Will Be a Very Hard Task
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on October 13th, 2009 4:32 am by HL
Justifying His Nobel Prize Will Be a Very Hard Task
Time for Decisiveness on Afghanistan
Robert Kaplan, The Atlantic
sponsored by by Robert D. Kaplan When it comes to foreign policy, Republicans and Democrats are each suspect in their own way. Republicans used to be the party of competence in world affairs. They lost that aura during President George W. Bush's first six years in office, when he mismanaged the wars both in Iraq and in Afghanistan. The Democrats, for their part, are often accused of being wobbly on national security, lacking both toughness and gumption. Unfortunately, President Barack Obama's recent handling of the war in Afghanistan plays to those charges. Being awarded the…
Praise Obama, And Pass the Hopium
John Kass, Chicago Tribune
Isn't it great that President Barack Obama has won the Nobel Peace Prize? He'd been in office only 12 days when the Nobel nominations were due. That's a mere 288 hours for Obama to have been credentialed as President Peace. It's not every day that a Chicago politician with City Hall guys running the White House goes and wins the Nobel Prize. So when the news broke last week, a bold decree was read across the land: Henceforth, the 12 glorious days shall be known as Barack's Golden Almost-Fortnight; or Barack's Amazing Days of Peace, Harmony, and Universal…
