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jrnvashon 10/20/2011 02:24 AM Report
REMant you should try to understand the difference between retribution and accountability. Your lame attribution of retribution should be balanced by your lack of experience and insight into such a life experience.
adamlarson14 10/19/2011 11:47 AM Report
What a great woman. Congratulations to her on this honor.
Good job Charlie, thank you for having her on.
REMant 10/18/2011 11:10 AM Report
I'm glad this was on, because it illustrates the abuse being made of the Peace Prize by the selection committee, and shows that the selection of Obama a couple years ago was no accident. She is the only one of these three women this year who might be said to have contributed to peace. Sirleaf, who was schooled in the US and worked for Citibank and international organizations before being elected president of Liberia, has no record of involvement with the anti-war movement there AFAIK, while Tawakel Karman has been called the "Mother of the Revolution" in Yemen. Ms. Gbowee, herself, however, made it plain in this interview she seeks retribution.
According to Nobel's will, the Peace Prize is to be awarded to the person who "...shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses." Altho couched in the language of a century ago, it reflects clearly enough an idea of anti-militarism I'll admit, rather than balance of power. But according to the prize committee's announcement the women were recognized "for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work." At best this amounts to the identification of women with peace. The world I'll aver has seen no such outpouring coincident with the advent of women's suffrage nor any of the other such Whiggish and evangelical movements from temperance to animal rights.
If the Norwegians can't tell the difference between such activism and what Nobel called for they have no business awarding the prize, nor Charlie Rose applauding them for it, tho of course he does get a lot of funding from left-leaning women. Clearly the committee wanted to make another political statement. But frankly I'm surprised they didn't pick Sarkozy and Cameron, or Petraeus and the US Central or Africa Commands.