You can watch President Obama receive the Nobel Peace Prize Thursday, 7:00-8:30 am ET — click here.
The Nobel Peace Prize Award Ceremony takes place in the Oslo City Hall, Norway, on 10 December every year – the anniversary of Alfred Nobel’s death.
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He is sending 30,000 troups. Will he give back the piece prize?
Troops and peace.
While I agree that President O. has quite a hole to dig himself out of, it would be worse if he went against his conscience to make the speech go smoothly.
I don’t want to turn this into a tennis match, but if their aren’t enough troops to do the job that’s needed, then sending some help would be, for lack of a better word, the humane thing to do.
Secondly, I still think he deserves the prize if only for the fact that he’s not Bush.
back to climate change – I like that Obama specifically noted his top military leaders are pushing for action on climate change because it is above all a security issue. Now if he’d just repeat that fact a million times!
So what if the President had decided to send 40,000 troops to Afghanistan? Think that would have been a harder sell to the Nobel Prize Committee?
I’m thinking that 30K was the number that kept the Peace Prize from being rescinded. It is just not right to win the Nobel Peace Prize and take the advice of a 5 star general on conducting a war. If he would have gone with the 40K they would have pulled the award and, well, its double jeopardy with those Nobel Prizes – once they pull the first one for too many troops they never give another one even when you retire and have nothing better to do.
That’s our President – he knows how to work the ropes.