By Justin Raimondo
Let’s say you’re the President of the United States — okay? And
you’re on the brink of escalating what promises to be a wider, more
intense war than that which George W. Bush launched in Iraq. You’ve
already sent
in reinforcements, but you’re undecided about just how many
more troops you’re going to send to Afghanistan – could be
20,000, could be 40,000, or
even 60,000. But, in any case, you’ve ruled
out withdrawal and diplomacy: the only option you have left is
more war.
In addition, you’re moving – slowly but
surely – toward full-scale involvement in Pakistan, where
your drones are daily wreaking death and destruction on
innocent civilians, and destabilizing a government that is
increasingly hostile to your machinations – even though you’re
bribing them with billions that never reach their ostensible
beneficiaries and only serve to fatten the purses of your Pakistani
sock-puppets.
On top of that, you’ve just told the Palestinians that they must
live with
Israeli “settlements” and
forced the UN to ignore an
official report detailing the killing of thousands of innocent
men, women, and children by IDF forces armed by the US.
On top of that, you’re pushing through Congress a
record military spending bill that
keeps the US
spending more than the top
45 nations on earth combined on weapons and methods of war.
So, naturally, as a reward for all your strenuous efforts on
behalf of keeping the world a place that is less safe, less stable,
and less worth living in than at any time since the outbreak of
World War II, you are bestowed with – yes, that’s right,
the Nobel Peace Prize. This, however, isn’t just any Nobel
Peace Prize – oh no It’s a Bizarro Peace Prize – the natural result
of us having slipped through a crack in the space-time continuum,
and landed in a world where up is down, right is left, and war is
peace – Bizarro World!
For years – ever since the 9/11 terrorist attacks – I’ve been
saying that the sheer force of the explosions that sent us hurtling
into a nightmare world of color-coded terrorist alerts and hunts
for “weapons of mass destruction,” must have ripped a hole in the
very fabric of reality. So that, today, we’re living in an
alternate universe, where the laws of logic and reason are repealed
– Bizarro World.
For a while there I thought we might be heading back toward
reality, or at least some more rational version of it, and that
what I call the Bizarro Effect might be wearing off. However, this
morning’s shocker – the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to an
American president about to launch a decades-long military
occupation, even as he promises (so far to little
effect) to bring another occupation to an end — has dashed that
hope beyond redemption.
And as if to underscore the fact that we are still living in the
world we woke up to on September 11, 2001, a top official of the
Democratic National Committee – communications director Brad
Woodhouse – has issued the following
statement in response to guffaws from the peanut gallery:
“The Republican Party has thrown in its lot with the
terrorists – the Taliban and Hamas this morning – in criticizing
the President for receiving the Nobel Peace prize.”
As Obama prepares for war, and yet more war, anyone who
questions this is a terrorist – and peace be with you, my
son.
http://news.antiwar.com/2009/10/09/bizarro-peace-prize-awarded-to-obama/