I don't have a problem with the President winning the Nobel Peace Prize. I think most people look at it like a bad call in a football game that favors your team...you realize it's lame but you still have to take advantage of it to be meaningful.
I think this is a nice way to demonstrate that the greatest potential for peace comes through President Obama. Does he deserve it? No, but he can potentially earn it.
Maybe he can reduce troops in Iraq significantly and stop replacing the soldiers with government contractors with guns.
Maybe he can stop the occupation of Afghanistan --The graveyard of empires.
Maybe he can stop war with Iran and even resist the temptation of levying worthless sanctions against them that only hurts the most vulnerable people there.
Maybe he'll want to earn this award and not consider it a free-ride to use the military to satisfy some strange sense of foreign adventurism like our previous president.
Maybe the Nobel Peace Prize will mean something once again. Yeah, I doubt it too.
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