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Originally posted by MaggieL
Ah! They should be ignored then, they obviously don't count. Seems to me that "threats of the use of power" are coming from more than one place these days.
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There is always someone threatening or actively using power. For example, few understood or even knew of the the war fought between Cubans and S Africian troops. Not since VietNam has a US president unilaterally decided to promote massive new wars when not attacked or threatened or in the protection of allies. Where are these other relevant "threats of the use of power" coming from - that are so notably different from previous decades?
The Nobel committee was so appaulled at this president as to issue an extraordinary statement - even though some on that committee would even nominate Geroge Jr and Tony Blair for the peace prize. Of course, maybe the committee made that statement, in part, because George and Tony were nominated. The majority were that appauled at those conservative militaristic attitudes even on their own committee.
Either way, George Jr earned condemnation from the Nobel committee for his wholesale encouragement of 'peace destruction' be it in Korean negotiations, Iraq, the Oslo Accords, the undermining of a struggling, democratically elected government in Iran, outright snubbing of the UN because it will not cowtow to his agenda, etc.