Comments on: New ‘Peace’ Prize Laureate Was Accessory to War

By: Lina

Lina — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 18:31:34 +0000

I think all the people on here upset about the great Ahtisaari win are mostly Israelis, illegal land owners, racists, and murderers of innocent citizens, children, women, elderly…who are afraid of the type of work done by Ahtisaari to “God forbid” come to Israel and bring peace to ALL and relieve the Palestinians of the hell of a life they lead today because of Israel, also bringing peace to the decent peace loving Israelis thathave to suffer from their governments garbage. Note: Anti Israel does not equal Anti-Semitism and those expressing their regret of Arafat winning the prize should do their homework and find out about what Rabin and Peres’ governments did to innocent Palestinians. Of course, the stupid people that follow the same narrow minded line of thought of George Bush will spit out comments about Palestinian terrorists and bla bla bla, ya we know they exist-but many more exist in Israel, the whole Israeli IDF and government practice the same terrorstic tactics and they are theives! Thieves of land that is nottheir own, I have never heard of a Palestinian steeling anything from anyone.

By: Michael T

Michael T — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 04:37:39 +0000

Any credibility of the Peace Prize was lost the moment they gave it Arafat in 94. Who really cares?

By: Anthony

Anthony — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 02:36:49 +0000

Is there not peace in Kosovo? Much more so than there was 5 years ago. Ahtisaari brought peace, much the same as Le Duc Tho, a previous laureate did.

Of course, the Nobel committee’s overlooking of Eisenhower and Nimitz in 1946 is unforgiveable.

By: Eric R.

Eric R. — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:10:03 +0000

Given the virulent, irrational and insatiable anti-Semitism shown by the European left, they would probably give Ahmedinejad the Peace Prize — after nuking Israel into a Second Shoah.

By: Roderick Reilly

Roderick Reilly — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:35:30 +0000

Giving out prizes for “trying” or “meaning well” makes perfect sense in the Special Olympics, but to give such “prizes” to adults for the same reason when all that was achieved was more bloodshed and ill-will is criminal.

Nobel Peace Prizes should only be given out sporadically when an actual concrete peace accord is hammered out and abided by. Ironically, by my definition, Jimmy Carter deserved a peace prize for the Egypt-Israel accord, but not for all the other well-meaning but counter-productive crap he was praised for. Henry Kissinger did not deserve a peace prize for the Geneva accords that “ended” the Viet Nam war.

By: Gudrun Eussner

Gudrun Eussner — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:34:05 +0000

Here is an article about the "International Crisis Group" in the Balkans for those who read German, written in May 2001. You will find George Soros, Martti Ahtisaari, Wesley Clark, Louise Arbour, Carla del Ponte and others. International Crisis Group, Selbstdarstellung. Artikel vom 8. Mai 2001

By: myth buster

myth buster — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:44:45 +0000

“They create desolation and call it peace.”

By: iconoclast

iconoclast — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:32:44 +0000

Well, giving Krugman (a Keynesian, of all things) the Nobel Prize for economics demonstrates the power of politics over content.

By: Bugs

Bugs — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:22:22 +0000

I’m waiting for a recipient to turn down his or her award, citing the problems discussed here as justification. Unfortunately, the only Americans in a position to do so are probably the physicists, and I imagine they’re too detached from the rest of the categories to care.

By: Kim Zigfeld

Kim Zigfeld — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:36:31 +0000

What’s really outrageous about this action is not that the recipient is unworthy but that so many desperately worthy candidates have been ignored.

I would point to Lidia Yusupova, who routinely faces death threats as she carries on the heroic work of Anna Politkovskaya, fighting for human rights against barbaric and systemmatic persecution by Russian authorities in Chechnya. It’s not as if the Committee didn’t know about her, she had been nominated — and not for the first time either.

By ignoring those who risk their lives on a daily basis struggling for peace and human rights, the Nobel Committee is slowly rendering itself obsolete and encouraging abusive regimes to continue persecuting those who dare to stand for peace.