The Great Appeaser

I have to admit, I have a hard time writing a reasonably periodic blog. During this last gap, the Norwegians slipped in a surprise when they awarded Barack Obama the Nobel Peace Prize. If this wasn't so tragic for much of the world, it would be sickening.

Let me make one point clear. I'm not one of the Obama-haters out there. I love the fact that he's the second president from Harvard Law School (Rutherford B. Hayes was the first). I don't think he's the death of America. His election doesn't fill me with desire to move out of the country, as , say, the election of Mike Huckabee would have done. But this is such a pathetic award that it's become a worldwide laughing stock, and nobody deserves being laughed at more than Obama, who seems only to desire to replace Neville Chamberlain as "the Great Appeaser."

One of the pre-election comments about Obama was that he was weak in foreign affairs. Instead of asking advice from South Carolina governor Mark Sanford, who seems to be an expert (ask that Argentinean woman that he claims to be his "soul mate"), Obama claimed that his help would come from Joe Biden, whose best-known international venture was to plagiarize Neil Kinnock, the former leader of the British Labor Party. Between them, Obama and Biden are proving to be the Gang that Couldn't Think Straight.

Latest news: Obama can't make it to Berlin for the 20th anniversary of tearing down the Berlin Wall. Of course not; he's too busy trying to suck up to Russian dictator Vladimir Putin to celebrate the most important event with regard to world peace to happen in my lifetime: the fall of Communist Eastern Europe.

In fact, Obama scrapped the plans of the Bush administration to put land-based missiles in Poland and the Czech Republic. The Russians didn't like two of the three East Bloc countries that revolted against Russian hegemony having such missiles, even if they were turned toward Iran. So Obama killed them and intimated that, as a result, the Russians would help with Iran. Only ... when Secretary of State Hillary Clinton went to Russia to get a joint statement, the Russians told her to pound sand. Typical Obama: appease the unappeasable. Isn't that exactly what Chamberlain did?

If Obama's ceaseless blundering leads us to war instead of peace, could we force Norwegians to man the front lines?