The attribution of the Nobel Peace Prize for Barack Obama was greeted mostly with surprise and skepticism, but also with mockery and ridicule. Jay Leno, for example, commented that Obama's greatest achievement so far was, in fact, have received the Nobel. And the serious opinólogos seem to agree, just that it is too early to decide that the President deserves to be called an agent of peace. After all, the same news Friday, Obama met with his advisers to discuss the escalation of the war in Afghanistan.
A war president receives the top prize of peace. This seems paradoxical at first sight. Unless we want to attribute to the Nobel committee a sense of humor that he had never shown, his decision earlier this year seems to follow the lines of the incomprehensible. "You know the Obama when he received the Nobel of Peace? "seems entry of a joke, of those jokes where the outcome is less important than the entry itself.
Obama has done nothing because the war in Afghanistan still continues (and will continue for many more years in the aptly named graveyard of empires), because they are still tensions in the Middle East, where a stubborn Benyamin Netanyahu refuses to stop the Israeli colonization of Palestinian territories, because Iran is determined to become a nuclear power, because Pakistan is still a bomb time, which no one knows either detonator well how to stop. Russia retains its imperial pretensions. India is engaged in an arms race (With nuclear weapons, no less) with the neighbor and enemy Pakistan. And North Korea remains an unfathomable enigma.
But as we said, the Nobel committee has no humor and least must have wanted to be a joke. Or rather, the joke is to find the meaning to his decision. And for that, the same committee members explained that he had conferred the award for the influence it has had its position in world diplomacy. If we find the political meaning of this award, we will look at the farewell to the unilateralism of the years of George W. Bush, in the emphasis on dialogue with everyone, even those "enemies" with whom his predecessor delusional refused to be treated.
The atmosphere, so to speak, is more relaxed and no longer hear the drums of war were the theme song of the Cold War heated to Bush. The Nobel prize is a recognition of that fact and at the same time, a support line of dialogue and multilateralism taken by Obama and urge you not to abandon it under pressure from the hawks.
