Today's NYT OPED
"Meanwhile, the prize makes every foreign-policy problem Obama faces seem ever so slightly more burdensome. Now he’s the Nobel laureate who has to choose between escalating a counterinsurgency in Afghanistan or ceding ground to a theocratic mafia. He’s the Nobel laureate who’ll either have to authorize military strikes against Iran or construct an effective, cold-war-style deterrence system for the Middle East. He’s the Nobel laureate who’ll probably fail, like every U.S. president before him, to prod Israelis and Palestinians toward a comprehensive settlement."
This award is a disaster. Now that he is a peace Nobel, he will be ever more unlikely to do what it takes to stop Iran from finishing it's nuclear bomb quest. He is the only one in the world who can stop them. His failure to do so will be the biggest blunder in 50 years.
The consequences of that may well be dirty bombs in US and European cities, missiles with nuclear tips, God forbid, at Israel, which may or may not be able to stop them (hence 25% of Israelis saying they will leave once it is confirmed Iran has them).
In addition, the 4% of Israelis who support Obama will drop to 2%, as the "man of peace"
feels the mandate to pressure Israel even more. The nightmare grows.
I hope I am wrong. Let's revisit this in 2 years and see what happens. Meanwhile, pray a lot.
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