Liberals FUME at Obama Award

The Daily Beast: Even the Liberal Peter Beinart thinks the Nobel award to President Obama is a bad idea, Mr Beinart writes the following, " I like Barack Obama as much as the next liberal, but this is a farce. He’s done nothing to deserve the prize. " This blog on the whole is not a Liberal Blog, but it does endorse the above, if the President has come out and said thank you but then declined the award I would have more respect for President Obama, but again its about him, the ONE, the Star, sometimes the best thing is not winning, that's the part Obama of late has not has to deal with, those on the list had more need of the award, Obama again has shown why no drama Obama has no class, sad in many respects.

Obama WINS the Nobel Peace Prize

Courtesy of the White House: President Obama

The New York Times: Reports on the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to President Obama, the NYT sees the downside to such an award, the NYT writes the following, " ....the award could, in a strange way, prove a political liability......" in essence the you could have a Thatcher/Gorbachev effect, Obama is now down in the polls at home but is loved abroad with the exception of the Olympic Committee. One only has to look at the cases of Lady Thatcher and former USSR President Gorbachev, it should be noted that Gorbachev also won a Nobel Peace Prize but was still thrown out of Office in 1991. These two great leaders from the 80's got more respect abroad than at home, in Russia Gorbachev is as popular as the local tax man who raised your taxes. But it is interesting to see what the Nobel Committee has stated about the award of the prize to President Obama, " The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 is to be awarded to President Barack Obama for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples. The Committee has attached special importance to Obama's vision of and work for a world without nuclear weapons. Obama has as President created a new climate in international politics. Multilateral diplomacy has regained a central position, with emphasis on the role that the United Nations and other international institutions can play. Dialogue and negotiations are preferred as instruments for resolving even the most difficult international conflicts. The vision of a world free from nuclear arms has powerfully stimulated disarmament and arms control negotiations. Thanks to Obama's initiative, the USA is now playing a more constructive role in meeting the great climatic challenges the world is confronting. Democracy and human rights are to be strengthened. Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world's attention and given its people hope for a better future. His diplomacy is founded in the concept that those who are to lead the world must do so on the basis of values and attitudes that are shared by the majority of the world's population. For 108 years, the Norwegian Nobel Committee has sought to stimulate precisely that international policy and those attitudes for which Obama is now the world's leading spokesman. The Committee endorses Obama's appeal that "Now is the time for all of us to take our share of responsibility for a global response to global challenges. " If Obama had removed nuclear weapons from the face of the earth then the Nobel Committee would have a point, but according to most news reports the choice of Obama started before he was elected President, thus his selection happened within a few days or weeks of him becoming POTUS. This is not good for the Nobel Committee, it is fast becoming an arm of the Democratic Party in the United States. It can be argued that former Vice President Al Gore and President Jimmy Carter had earned their Nobel awards, this award is about style over substance,

Death in Afghanistan

MOD: Reports that another soldier has died in Afghanistan, the soldier was from the " 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards " As of 2001 the UK has lost 221 of its Armed Forces Personnel in Afghanistan. In that total there have been 190 combat deaths and 31 due to illness, accidents or other incidents. It looks like President Obama will not grant the forty thousand troops as requested by his chosen Commander on the ground, General McChrystal, thus the UK should start to withdraw our troops, why should the UK lose brave soldiers due to ego of President Obama.

Afghanistan is Nam for the SOLDIERS

The Times: Reports on the low spirits of US soldiers in Afghanistan. If one takes Afghanistan out and replaces it with Vietnam the War in Afghanistan for the soldiers has direct indications of Vietnam. At its essence is that the enemy can never really be taken prisoner or destroyed, it like drowning slowly, the solders are in a constant war that they cant win. That's why Afghanistan policy is nightmare, what ever you do soldiers will die, its the same problems LBJ had over Vietnam, no matter what policy is in place it will never be enough and sooner or later the War will destroy your Presidency, it happened to LBJ it will happen to President Obama. If one is being objective about Afghanistan, one could happily walk away but one is left with Pakistan, if Pakistan did not have the bomb one could walk away from that country also, in fact the the USA did after USSR was forced out of Afghanistan. The problem is that once the USA left Afghanistan after the USSR left, the Taliban took over and then we had Al Qaeda thus 9/11 and the death of three thousand people. The Taliban in control of a nuclear armed Pakistan, would make Vietnam,Iraq, and Iran look happy hour at the local. Thus the spirits of the soldiers might be in the toilet, the casualty rate is going through the roof, the Kabul Government is bent, the US public is going wobbly, VP Biden thinks this Vietnam all over again, President Obama cant leave Afghanistan, if he does wobble folks buy a nuclear bunker, because Obama will make you wish for Jimmy Carter back in the Presidency.

We are NICE - Taliban!!

Guardian: Reports that the Taliban of Afghanistan have stated that they are not a threat to the West. Lets see why would the Taliban make such a statement, would it be because they know that President Obama is looking for a way out of Afghanistan, that he has sold out Poland, Czech Republic, why not the good decent people of Afghanistan. Obama is WEAK, from the latest news story in the Liberal New York Times, it can be seen that the Biden camp is doing a subtle PR job on Obama. Obama has not taken on his left wing, he is afraid, thus if your the Ukraine don't expect any support from Obama he is to afraid of Russia. Also Iran you can go nuclear, Obama does not have the guts to take you on, he is more interested in pandering to the left wing of the Democratic Party. It should be noted that the great American President, Ronald Reagan was willing to take on his Conservative wing, when Reagan and Gorbachev buried the Cold War the right in the USA accused Reagan of being soft on the USSR. In your dreams can you see Obama taking on his left wing, this side of New Labour winning the next election.

No Other Choice Mr President - WP

The Washington Post: Has an interesting Editorial on the Obama search for a policy in Afghanistan, in essence the the The Washington Post is stating that Obama does not have a choice, he can only win by following the McChrystal plan. Any different plan the WP writes would " repeat the strategic errors of the Bush administration...... It likely would mean accepting hundreds more deaths of U.S. and allied troops in the next year...." Thus should President Obama follow the Biden plan this blog will go out for the UK to get its troops out of Afghanistan. If Obama does not have the backbone to support his troops in the fox holes of Afghanistan then the UK should not lose one of its Armed Forces Personnel in Afghanistan, we should get out yesterday. The Obama Administration has shown a weakness that is hard to imagine without thinking of Neville Chamberlain. Thus lets see the details of the new Obama plan for Afghanistan, if its some muddle on Afghanistan, a half way house, this is how to lose a War. Also more attacks on Al Qaeda in Pakistan could bring down the secular government, does Obama want to hand over Pakistan to the Taliban of Pakistan.

Biden WINNING Afghan Policy ?

The New York Times: An article that gives the impression that VP Biden is winning the debate in the Obama Administration as to the future of Afghanistan, the NYT writes the following, " by emphasizing the campaign against Al Qaeda in Pakistan while arguing that the Taliban in Afghanistan do not pose a direct threat to the.... ( USA ) " As the NYT points out this view of the Taliban as not a long term threat to the USA is being countered by both Secretaries of State and Defence. If President follows the Biden advice the Taliban and Al Qaeda will throw the biggest party in Afghan history. The lack of resolve if this action would tell Iran that Obama does not have the backbone to deal with them, thus they can go nuclear, Israel will have to hit Iran, also Poland and the Czech Republic would know that if Russia tried to increase their area of influence to Poland and the Czech Republic the Obama Administration would sell them out. Lets hope this article is a Biden spin job, otherwise the USA has just elected Neville Chamberlain to be President till 2012. At least after Jimmy Carter the USA got Ronald Reagan, who on the Republic side can fill the shoes of the Gipper, by 2012 the USA will need a leader. Also by the extension of drone attacks in Pakistan the USA could place Pakistan under threat of the Taliban of Pakistan.