http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20664167
When was it that the Nobel Prize became a joke? Was it when Le Duc Tho received it along with Henry Kissinger for a peace treaty that the North Vietnamese broke when they finally overran South Vietnam? Was it when Yasser Arafat received it for telling English-speaking audiences that he wanted peace? Was it when Al Gore got it for making a junk science movie about global warming? Was it when Jimmy Carter got it for his lifetime achievement of futilely pursuing peace? Or when Barack Obama got it for making grand speeches about "hope and change"?
The latest absurdity is the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to the European Union. For what? The Euro? The Greek debt crisis? For calling on Syria to stop the killing of its own citizens? For helping topple Ghadafi in Libya ushering in a new set of murderers?
And to see those three boobs representing the EU, apparatchiks Herman van Rompuy, Jose Manuel Barroso, and Martin Schulz up there accepting the award. The only thing missing was Baroness Lady Catherine Ashton, the hapless foreign affairs chief.
Like Henry Kissinger said when interviewed in Saturday Night Live by Baba Wawa...
ReplyDeleteWhat was the high point of your career?
1973, when I won the Nobel Peace Prize for ending the war in Vietnam.
And what was the low point of your career?
1975, when the Vietnam War ended.