The Whole World Seems to Be on A Bad Drug… by Milota Sidorova

Ok. It’s really difficult for me to find the first words to comment Barack Obama getting the Nobel Prize for Peace effort. The case is I will try to eliminate kind of intolerant cynicism among the lines, and try to follow the facts. The image of the U.S. steeply declined during past years that world remembers as Bush era chasing invisible terrorist enemy. Two or three more military missions aiming to get closer to the source of major supplies of oil haven’t even finished. The general opinion about them is not good – only minority believes Afghan terrorist could break and destroy American security plan in so many levels. Not those sitting in the cave wishi! ng death for America. But still we have American troops occupying Middle East and what’s more – there are some key points to control the country with access to the oil. Americans are still there – despite the promise of new President who made it clear it was one of his top priorities. He also mentioned America was increasing its debt just because of war. Logically he should have done everything to stop the war. But ten months of his presidency haven’t brought any visible progress, on the contrary last week there was the request for bringing another 100, 000 American soldiers to Afghanistan and Iraq. How come? Then we hear “surprising news” Mr. Obama was Nobel Prize laureate. Oh yes, he’s been using the soft power of diplomacy – but there’s been no serious results, neither in economy nor in military field. He’s received the Prize, the American president got the Nobel prize. From the long distance run, it could! improve the image of blood and money thirsty United States. B! ut not n ow. There’s the wave of criticism pointing the Nobel Prize was just political decision. Just the political stress to bring President Obama back to the peace efforts. Was it an attempt to give a child reward before he’s done his homework . But will it be a success? I don’t think so. There’s always something behind the king – there is a superpower behind Obama bending his will and decision. And I haven’t understood one more thing – how could such a young person got the Prize for efforts that the others are fighting for so many years? Was he the only appropriate candidate for the prize or it was just political and medial compromise?

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by Milota Sidorova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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