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You don’t have to be a genius to see that by giving the prize to Obama, the Nobel committee wanted to influence his decision on how to proceed in Afghanistan. Obama is currently deciding whether to send in more troops and make sure the country never again becomes a big terrorist training camp - or to quietly let the Taliban win and hope for the best. With the prize, the Nobel peaceniks are trying to make it harder for him to choose the former course. “Hey Barry, you’ve just won the Nobel peace prize – you won’t celebrate it by escalating a war that Bush started, will you?”

Make no mistake, folks – these people are trying to influence the foreign policy of the United States of America in a way pernicious to America’s vital interests. And they are doing it because they feel that with the current occupant of the White House, they have a good chance.

Oh, and these people don’t care about Obama – for them, he’s just a useful idiot who can be manipulated to help them achieve their real goal: weakening America. If they really cared about him, they’d wait until 2012 with their October surprise.

UPDATE 1: Similar thoughts from Maggie’s Farm: “Taliban Peace Prize For Obama“:

The Nobel committee hopes to influence Obama’s decisions on Afghanistan. Now that he is an internationally recognized man of peace, he is not going to order a surge in Afhanistan. McChrystal won’t get the troops he says he needs.

The White House has been preparing this ground for weeks, suggesting that since Al Qaeda is now weak a Taliban return to power needn’t worry us. We can live with that, they say off the record. The great military thinkers Joe Biden, John Kerry, Rahm Emanuel, and David Axelrod have developed a long-range John Murtha strategy that will operate along the lines of a video game: if you see movement on the screen, push a button.

And with the Taliban back in power, we won’t have to worry about messy elections. But what about those who fought with us? What has the Taliban in store for them? If Afghanistan were not a land-locked country, we could expect thousands of boat people.

But not to worry. When asked about a possible bloodbath following a hasty withdrawal from Iraq, Obama said he didn’t really have a problem with it and its possibility should not determine policy. He won’t have a problem with it in Afghanistan either. After all, we’ve been told, Afghanistan, like Vietnam or Iraq before the surge, was always unwinnable. We’ll accept a certain number of refugees to help ease the short-term sting of conscience over betraying an allly. But as with all vices, repetition makes the practice easier. This won’t be the first time we’ve betrayed an ally.

It will destoy the military, of course, but by the time that becomes clear Obama will have passed from the scene.

UPDATE 2: “The Nobel Peace Bribe”:

The chunk of money awarded by the Nobel people is over a million dollars. Its stated purpose is to influence an elected official, since it’s “aspirational” and not for any achievement.

Don’t elected officials go to jail for taking that kind of money?

It should be called “The Nobel Peace Bribe.”

UPDATE 3: The chairman of the Nobel peace prize committee is a vice president of the Socialist International.

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