OK I am going to get political...

I usually refrain from getting political, but this morning this just went all over me. I booted up my computer and first thing I see on the MSN headline is that our President won the Nobel Peace Prize.
Now don't get me wrong, I pray for our president and although I do not agree with every policy he implements I am not an "Obamabasher". So this is more against the people who decide these things than the President himself. But come on!
Lets see what he has done to shape peace throughout the world. Ah, wait a minute, I am thinking, uhmm, well, I really can't come up with anything right now. And that is exactly my point.
Now in the article it talks about how he is lending an ear to Muslim issues and countries in the world, that we all need to live together in this great big world regardless of race and religion. But are we? Just this week Israel has said the obvious, there will be no peace in the Middle East, because the other side does not want it. The militant Hamas, PLO and the other "liberation organizations" that masquerade as politicians but are really terrorist will never accept an Israeli homeland in that area of the world. And the situation with Iran, well that is a boiling pot ready to explode. And Pakistan, well their democratic leader has decided democracy worked great when he was getting elected, now that his time is up he has decided a dictatorship suits him better. Can we really say the world and its countries are in a better place today than say even in 2000? I don't think so.
It also talks about how he is working to disarm the nuclear arsenals of the world. Well this is never going to happen. We have nuclear weapons because we developed them first. The other countries that have nuclear weapons looked at us and said we need a big stick too, so they made their own big sticks. Only the countries who lacked the resources or the know how were never able to make their own big stick got left in the dust. And once you have a big stick, the only thing you don't want is for others to get a big stick. You see with nuclear weapons their is no safeguard. You can burrow down into the mountain, but even if you survive you may not ever be able to leave that grave for the living because of the damage done to the surface. Disarmenment is a farce. You can tell people to turn in their guns for incentives, some will but most will turn in a few and keep the ones that they need to protect themselves against those others who do not turn in all their guns. It is human nature. We are no closer to disarmement now than we were in the 80s during the Cold War.
It also talks about his commitment to World Peace. Can I say that peace only comes followed by a time of war? Check out history, it is the way it has been and will probably always be. We are just smarter about it now than we were in the past. Will there be another world war? I don't know but no one thought there would ever be the first let alone the second world war. Peace? Well I see Iran propaganding that it will become a super power in its military might, we have India and Pakistan firing missles across the bay in test flights, and both are nuclear powers, we have China driving tanks and marching soldiers in the streets showing off their army, and we have conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, a never ending drug war in Latin America, pirates (although stupid ones) attacking ships around the horn of Africa, and let us not forget Somalia, Central African Republic and the genocides that are occuring every day.
No, I think the people who award the Nobel Peace Prize are clueless. They are seeing with their ears but not with their eyes. Kind of like a lot of people today, they hear what they want to hear and then warp their vision to see only what they want to see.
Rant over.