'MR. PRESIDENT … WE HAVE SOME GOOD NEWS AND
SOME BAD NEWS … PLEASE NOTE IT'S THE SAME NEWS'
[La Soir,
Belgium]
Le Figaro, France
America Itself, Not Obama, Deserves
the Nobel Peace Prize
"They
dared to defy their prejudices - past and present - to elect a head of state
from one of their minority groups. … They have sent a concrete and exemplary
sign to the rest of the world. That doesn’t happen very often, even in the most
advanced democracies."
Editorial by
Yves Thréard
Translated By Juliet Fox
September 10,
2009
France - Le Figaro - Original Article (French)
Must
we abolish the Nobel Peace Prize? The question is being posed after it was
awarded to Barack Obama on Friday. This decision, which oozes political
correctness, is a pseudo good idea.
Of
course, this award, unlike the Nobel Prizes in science or literature, doesn't crown
the fruit of extensive research or a lifetime’s body of work. It is, in
principle, for one or more people who have contributed to a rapprochement
between peoples; to the propagation of human rights and liberty.
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These
are considerations that undoubtedly apply to the new American President. The
man is the embodiment of a break with the Bush era. His language is “peaceful”:
toward Muslims (his speech in Cairo); and he's in favor of nuclear disarmament
(speech in Prague). His political plans are imbued with humanity, i.e.: health care
reform in the United States and his international ambitions to cultivate
reconciliation in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Middle East. And finally, the man
incarnates the new America, one that has at its helm an African-American, just 40
years after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King.
Besides,
is it not the American people themselves who are due this as a reward? They
dared to defy their prejudices - past and present - to elect a head of state
from one of their minority groups. In so doing, they have sent a concrete and
exemplary sign to the rest of the world. That doesn’t happen very often, even
in the most advanced democracies.
'THE GOOD INTENTIONS OF BARACK OBAMA'
[Hoje
Macau, Macau]
Obama has good intentions, but do these suffice
to make a great president? Certainly not. He has held his post for only ten
months. His road promises to be long and fraught with pitfalls. Nothing says
that he won’t be dismissed at the end of his term like one of his Democratic
predecessors, Jimmy Carter -also a Nobel Peace Prize winner. But only in 2002,
22 years after he left the White House.
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As for Obama, he still holds power. If this
prize still has any value, it can only complicate his task, constrain his
actions and expose him to “moral blackmail.” What if the new Nobel Prize laureate
has to use force to resolve the Iranian imbroglio? In politics, the end
justifies the means. To be victorious, idealistic principles and grand ideas
must often take a backseat to shameful cynicism and certain compromises.
The Nobel Academy, which awarded the Prize to
Arafat in 1994 but ignored Mahatma Gandhi, did no favors for Barack Obama on Friday.
SEE ALSO ON THIS:
El Universal, Venezuela:
'Peace Prize' Winner Should Close All U.S. Military Bases
Kitabat, Iraq:
Barack Obama ... Bird of Peace!
Dagens Nyheter, Sweden:
The Norwegians 'Got Carried Away' with Obama
Dernieres Nouvelles d'Alsace, France:
Peace Prize Could Cripple Young President
Le Monde, France:
One Must Not
Misinterpret Obama's Nobel!
Le Temps, Switzerland:
Has Nobel Committee
'Fallen on its Head?'
Corriere della Sera, Italy:
Is Obama's Nobel Just to Repudiate George W. Bush?
Sato, Portugal:
President Obama's Nobel - Can He Fulfill World's Expectations?
Rue 89, France:
Nobel 2009: Obama a (Premature) Icon of Peace
Kayan, Iran:
'Traitorous African Murderer' Wins 2009 Nobel Peace Prize!
Estadao, Brazil:
Obama's Nobel Won't Help Him Fight Wars
Zaman, Turkey:
Turks Agree: Obama's Nobel Reflects Hope, Not Action
Der Spiegel, Germany:
For Barack Obama, Nobel Prize
More of a Burden than an Honor
Frankfurter Allgemeine, Germany:
Nobel Prize Winners May
Have to Settle for Less ...
The Times, U.K.:
'Absurd Decision'
on Obama Makes Mockery
of Nobel Peace Prize
The Times, U.K.:
'Pointless' Nobel Reveals How Obama is Lost in His own Mystique
The Hindustan Times, India:
EDITORIAL: Nobel Committee
Wins an Obama
Times of India, India:
EDITORIAL: Decoding Obama's Nobel Prize
The Hindu, India:
The Nobel and
the Audacity of Hope-Giving
India Today, India:
[Indian] People's Verdict:
Obama Not 'Nobel' Enough
NTV Kenya Video:
'Yes He Can and Yes
He Did' Win the Nobel Prize
Russia Today Video:
Nobel Peace Prize
for Obama a 'Big Mistake'
CBC Canada Video:
Canada's Nightly
News Covers Obama's
Nobel Prize Win
France 24 Video:
Does Barack Obama
Deserve Nobel Peace Prize?
BBC News Audio:
IAEA Chief
ElBaradei Says 'No One
More Worthy' than Obama
BBC News Video:
After Mandela and
Tutu, South Africans Applaud
Obama Nobel Victory
BBC News Video:
Israeli President
Peres Praises Nobel Prize for Obama
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