WaPo Editorial: Neda of Iran should have gotten Nobel, not Obama
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on Oct 10 2009 Filed under Politics.
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The Post nails this thing on two counts. First they note what morons the Nobel Committee were to give Obama the Nobel Peace Prize for Awesomeness.
But in offering this latest Euro-celebration of the 2008 election, the Norwegian committee has also demonstrated a certain cluelessness about America. If anything animates Mr. Obama’s critics in this country, it is the impression that he is the focus of a global cult of personality. This prize, at this time, only feeds that impression, and thus does him no favors politically.
Actually the pick doesn’t just ‘feed the impression’ of a cult of personality. It proves it.
Their pick would have been Neda, the woman gunned down in the street by Iranian thugs after the election. I agree.
This year, hundreds of thousands of ordinary people in Iran braved ferocious official violence to demand their right to vote and to speak freely. Dozens were killed, thousands imprisoned. One of those killed was a young woman named Neda Agha-Soltan; her shooting by thugs working for the Islamist theocracy, captured on video, moved the world. A posthumous award for Neda, as the avatar of a democratic movement in Iran, would have recognized the sacrifices that movement has made and encouraged its struggle in a dark hour. Democracy in Iran would not only set a people free, it would also dramatically improve the chances for world peace, since the regime that murdered her is pursuing nuclear weapons in defiance of the international community.
The Nobel Committee’s cluelessness is magnified when you compare their winner, Obama, to someone like Neda. Obama is unable to recognize Iran as a despotic regime that kills its own people for speaking out. Neda recognized it as exactly that. Obama did nothing about it. Neda paid with her life. Maybe if Obama had done something to stop Iran from crushing the protests, he would have been deserving of the prize. And Neda would still be alive.
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Such a beautiful, brave girl. Much more deserving that the prick in the WH.
Not my president, so I feel no obligation to call him anything other than what I think of him. Today he’s a prick, among other things which I won’t go into here.
“Obama did nothing about it. Neda paid with her life. Maybe if Obama had done something to stop Iran from crushing the protests, he would have been deserving of the prize. And Neda would still be alive.”
And therein lies the tragedy and makes his win of that prize all the more galling.
I agree with MSGT’s Daughter. He is not my president….I did not vote for him….and I agree with her assessment of him. Totally.!!!!! Except for the mood I am in right now I could add a few more descriptions but I am afraid you would BLEEP me out!