| Background:The 2005 Nobel Peace Prize was | | | | results.What about the US military? Have they ever |
| awarded to the IAEA. Don't know who they are? | | | | been honored? Let's review what they have done.1. |
| They are the International Atomic Energy Agency. | | | | They almost single-handily defeated the empire of |
| What did they accomplish? I don't know. Did they | | | | Japan in WW II while simultaneously helping the Soviet |
| prevent the proliferation of atomic weapons in North | | | | Union defeat Nazi Germany. |
| Korea or Iraq? No. But they meant to and that is | | | | 2. Their presence in Europe after the war maintained |
| usually good enough for the Nobel Committee. These | | | | peace in Europe for 45 years. Has Europe ever seen |
| Norwegians (the Peace Center is in Oslo, Norway, not | | | | 45 years of peace? |
| Stockholm Sweden) are idealists, intentions go a long | | | | 3. They were the bulwark of NATO forces that |
| way with them.Let's review some of their other | | | | protected Europe (that includes Norway) from Soviet |
| stunning awardees.2004- Wangari Muta Maathai. | | | | invasion for 45 years. |
| Already forget who she was? That was just last | | | | 4. They have kept the peace on the Korean peninsula |
| year. She is an AIDS activist and environmentalist. No, | | | | for the last 50 years. |
| she did not get the prize for medicine or chemistry. | | | | 5. They ended the Cold War and communist |
| She received the prize for peace. Despite many | | | | hegemony over Eastern Europe. |
| advanced college degrees, she is an AIDS conspiracy | | | | 6. They are currently almost single-handily fighting the |
| nut who thinks that the virus was created by the | | | | international war on Islamofascism. |
| western governments to destroy Africans. She was | | | | 7. They are routinely dispatched to extinguish small |
| supposedly selected because she drew attention to | | | | brush fire sized wars throughout the world. |
| political oppression in her fights with her home | | | | 8. They are routinely dispatched to feed starving |
| government of Kenya. Drew attention? Did she | | | | countries and respond to natural disasters such as |
| accomplish anything?2002- Jimmy Carter. Really? For | | | | earthquakes and tsunamis. |
| his work, where? North Korea? Haiti? Has anything | | | | 9. They are the only peacekeepers nobody messes |
| really improved in those two countries since his visits? | | | | with. They actually keep the peace. |
| Maybe former president Carter and the Nobel Peace | | | | 10. They keep international sea lanes open to |
| Committee should move to either Haiti or North Korea. | | | | trade.That's only ten. I'm sure there are many more. So |
| Do you prefer to live in Haiti and put up with roving | | | | here is my plan. In order to give the United States' |
| gangs? Or is North Korea and their internal security | | | | military a Nobel Prize, we are going to have to invade |
| forces better for you. Human rights? Whatever.2001- | | | | the Peace Center and appoint our own committee |
| The UN. Where have they ever gone anywhere and | | | | members. Then we can declare the US military the |
| made a difference without the US backing them up? | | | | winner of a Peace Prize.We can probably do this |
| But they have good intentions.1994- Yassar Arafat. | | | | without hurting anybody. I think Norway is the only |
| The father of modern day terrorism who became a | | | | country in Europe that surrendered faster than France |
| multi-millionaire by stealing international aid money from | | | | in 1940. When we arrive on the beaches of Norway all |
| his own people.1990- Mikhail Gorbachev. He thought | | | | those Quislings will probably lie down and surrender.If |
| that he could reform communism and make it stronger | | | | we have to threaten the use of force we can use this |
| by giving his people a little freedom. He never | | | | opportunity to test our new F-22 Raptors and drop |
| understood the events that unfolded. You can't give | | | | some bombs in their fjords. They will surrender before |
| the people a little bit of freedom.1988- UN | | | | we kill all of their lutefisk. Christmas is almost here and |
| Peacekeepers. An ad-hoc group of soldiers who | | | | that is lutefisk season.Besides, what have the |
| usually just stand by and watch events such as | | | | Norwegians done for anybody except send Vikings |
| genocide unfold around them. They will do nothing | | | | out to loot, pillage, and burn villages and monasteries? |
| without the military backing of the US. In fact, they tend | | | | And they don't like America. They never have. They |
| to sit around and get bored a lot. So they bide their | | | | sailed here before anyone else and then turned around |
| time with some favorite activities that include looting, | | | | and settled Greenland because they thought that was |
| rape and child prostitution.1985- International Physicians | | | | a nicer place to live. Sure, they tend to do well in the |
| for the Prevention of Nuclear War. Now that is a noble | | | | Winter Olympics. But that is only because every event |
| calling. One problem. This organization was a KGB | | | | revolves around skiing and Norway is covered in snow |
| puppet that was organized to try to curb US nuclear | | | | for 46 weeks out of the year. This coincides nicely |
| power. It was chaired by Yevgeny Chazov, a member | | | | with the 46 weeks of vacation the average |
| of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of | | | | Norwegian worker receives each year.I'm sure the |
| the Soviet Union. Now that was a pleasant group of | | | | United Nations would spring into action and send some |
| peace loving people.Ronald Reagan. Oh no, I'm sorry, | | | | peacekeepers in two or three years. We can then |
| my bad. They didn't give one to him in 1985/86 when | | | | leave and let the Norwegians bitch slap them around. |
| he refused to back down to the Soviets with his SDI. | | | | Meanwhile if the UN tries sanctioning the US, we can |
| Or in 1987, when he gave his "Mr. Gorbachev Tear | | | | sanction them. We can withhold more of our dues, lock |
| Down this Wall" speech. These two events led to the | | | | them out of their own building in New York City, and |
| end of World War III, aka, the Cold War. Conservatives | | | | make them pay their parking tickets.Don't get me |
| are not allowed to win the prize, even if they do get | | | | started on the UN. Not today. |