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A Letter to our Nobel Winner

Akagi2 Wrote: Oct 12, 2009 6:20 PM

Ho Chi Min did not. It was le Duc Tho (he refused it). And if the US had sided with Ho over the French or equally brutal southern regimes, the US experience in Indo-China would have been much better--what the US didn't understand was not all communists are alike and the enemy of the Vietnamese for centuries was the Chinese. Ho could have easily become the Asian Tito.

Hitler was nominated--he didn't win and when he didn't he passed a law which forbid Germans from accepting international prizes such as the Noble.

As for Arafat, well it depends on your point of view I suppose. The Noble Committee also awarded Hull (of the Hull Note fame), Kissinger and de Klerk and as for the latter two, many don't have such high opinions of...

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A Letter to our Nobel Winner

Congratulations, Mr. President, you won the Nobel Peace Prize. Now it is time for you to earn it since your nomination was submitted just after you had actually taken office.

Nevertheless, it is possible for you to make some strides in lending legitimacy to an award whose nobility (or nobelity as the case may be) has been less tarnished ever since Al Gore won for his very nice PowerPoint presentation about polar bears. You can restore some semblance of “peace” to the Nobel Peace Prize.