Obama's Prize tells world 'War is Peace'

By Cal Colgan | JColgan@flagler.edu
Illustration by Hahau Yisrael

Last month, Barack Obama became the third U.S. president to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. The Norwegian Nobel Committee lauded Obama for his "extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples."

But unlike the countless followers of the lunatic Glenn Beck who think that our 44th president is turning our country into Stalinist Russia, there is a more rational argument to be made against Obama's recent award.

The Nobel Peace Prize was given to a man who, like a character in a George Orwell novel, kills in the name of peace. And as much as his doublespeak would like to drown out the cries of the victims of the sinister cadre of human rights abusers and war criminals that he supports, anyone with an elementary knowledge of current events knows that Obama's hands are muddied by the muck his allies have thrown on the peoples of the world...