Peace Prize!

[rain_gryphon]

Something that has just occurred to me about the EU winning the Nobel Peace Prize: As I noted back in 2009 when Obama won, that meant that America now had a Peace Prize winner who had fired off more cruise missiles than all the other winners COMBINED! This seemed a peculiarly American distinction, and one which I expected to probably stand forever. Now, of course, with the EU a winner, that honour is in peril. If the EU continues onward as an entity, then of course they can keep on shooting missiles long after Obama has left office. I'm troubled.

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So, now out of the past four winners, two have been quite blatant attempts to purchase political influence. It's an award that still has a reasonable amount of prestige associated with it, but stuff like this abrades that pretty fast.

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[http://users.livejournal.com/_fluffy/]

This is why I need to become a mad scientist with a volcano lair, so that I can also win the Nobel Peace Prize by failing to initiate global thermonuclear war.

[xolo.livejournal.com]

I can imagine you with a volcano lair, actually :)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_fluffy/]

Well, that IS what the MSLCaTL is, after all.