In 2009, US President Obama received the most prestigious peace award "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples".
He was given this, even though he hadn't earned it, with talk of it being in recognition of his coming work for peace.
In this past year, he has wrenched up the threats and covert attacks on Iran, supported Israel in it's oppression and land-grabbing in Palestine, committed murder of civilians in Pakistan(some view as terrorism), continued backing the Afghan government with bribes while killing any opposition, pulled half the troops out of Iraq while it's perched on the brink of civil war with no government formed, threatened North Korea into restarted nuclear weapon production, created a atmosphere of fear in Europe, increased conflict with China, sold billions of dollars of arms to Saudi Arabia(branded a oppressive nation), acted with total ignorance to Mexico's drug war that supplies the US with recreational drugs, created a culture of intolerance towards Islam in the US and it's allies...and this is just the stuff you read about in the papers. Of course there is Gitmo, continued torture and rendering, summary executions, abuse of homeland powers, etc, etc.
So, why should the Nobel Prizes be respected?
His prize should be retracted, as other recipients who didn't quite deserve it, got it for works in progress, Obama, got his for absolutely nothing!
