Posted by Wymark on 10/9/2009, 10:58 am
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The accolades just keep on rollin' in:
'US President Barack Obama has won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize.
The Nobel Committee said he was awarded it for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and co-operation between peoples"'.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8298580.stm
The dead of Bala Balouk, Khost, Logar and Bajaur (to reference a tiny minority of the people Obama has had his footsoldiers kill, displace and devastate since January in Afghanistan and Pakistan alone) must be turning in their mass graves and weeping in their refugee camps.
And I mean, it's not even as if his diplomacy has been that great. On the issue of Iran's nuclear program (of which there isn't a shred of evidence it's geared towards making nuclear weapons, as the IAEA have consistently said), for example, he's basically carried on the Bush tactic of saying to Iran - 'Do as we say, or else we're going to cripple you with sanctions/bomb you'. Using threats and intimidation to try and force Iran to bend to the U.S. will. But he's much slicker than Bush in terms of his delivery, so he tends to get away with it.
The Obama administration have been much praised for entering into talks with Iran, but they've entered the talks fully expecting them to fail, as Secretary of State Hilary Clinton has said:
'The Iranians must present convincing evidence as to the purpose of their nuclear program. We don't believe that they can present convincing evidence, that it's only for peaceful purposes, but we are going to put them to the test . . . we don't get the answers that we are expecting and the changes in behavior that we're looking for, then we will work with our partners to move toward sanctions'.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33045171/
I wouldn't be at surprised to learn that they actually want talks to fail, because the issue here isn't really Iran's nuclear program at all. It's Iran's successful defiance of the global hegemon.
They want to bring the country back under the thumb, make it a client state like it was when it was ruled by the dictatorial Shah (installed in 1953, after the CIA and MI6 overthrew the democratic Mossadeq government for the crime of nationalising Iran's oil fields), all the better to increase their control over the stratgeically important energy reserves of the region.
And they're hoping that they'll be able to do that through economic and/or military coercien. With likely non-existant WMDs as the cover story, just like they were in Iraq. So if the 'nuclear issue' was peacefully resolved, it'd strip them of their pretext.
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