President Barack Obamas Nobel Peace Prize speech last night in Oslo has been lauded by both Liberal and conservative pundits for its eloquence, humility and realism. I couldn´t agree more. A brilliant speaker he is and leaves no one untouched. However, what did he really express in his speech?
Early this morning, I tried to check out the international reactions to Obamas Nobel Peace Prize Award winning speech, and found very little so far. (Well, yes, the US is still sleeping back there in the west..)
But here is some of the reactions I' spotted on the Web From FirstRead The first place for key political news amd analysis today:
"Strikingly, there has been little reaction so far to President Obama's Nobel speech today among the political players. Even the Republican National Committee's Michael Steele, who quickly criticized awarding the prize to Obama back in October, has yet to release a statement." NBC's Mark Murray
"Obama seems to be trying to recast idealism in foreign policy as of a piece with realism, in the sense that a realistic and self-interested view of the world should hold that American ideals are more likely to foster peace and stability. Realistic idealism? Idealistic realism?"
Greg Sargent More..
The immediate reflections after the speech that came from the TV commentators in Oslo directly at the ceremony were only those of "how very skilled a speaker Obama is". The task of a quick analysis was obviously far too complicated...
And it is.
Well, the world will soon wake up and I look forward to see some comments to the speech of yet another controversial Nobel Peace Price laureate.
I remember suddenly the days of the secret 1969–1975 campaign of bombing against infiltraiting NVA in Cambodia, the alleged U.S. involvement in Operation Condor—a mid-1970s campaign of kidnapping and murder coordinated among the intelligence and security services of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay and a far more controversial laureate - Henry Kissinger, 10 Dec. 1973 - when some peace activists went as far as to suggest that the Nobel Peace Prize has become irrelevant due to Kissinger being a laureate. Peres, Begin, Arafat, Sadat..
Here is the list of the controversial Top Ten laureates, as seen and published by Listverse.
(Part 3 of 4 of the speech)
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