In the wake of President Barack Obama's winning of the Nobel Peace Prize, concerns are being expressed that the award may mean bad news for both Israel and America's efforts to bring about a secure Afghanistan.
Press reports say that President Obama might use his recently bestowed "Nobel status" to pressure Israel into a "peace" agreement with its hostile Arab neighbors. George Gilder, co-founder of the Discovery Institute and the author of The Israel Test, argues that to express too avid a desire for peace promotes war. "It gives adversaries who are dedicated, in this instance, to the destruction of Israel first but the destruction of the 'Great Satan America' second, the illusion that they can make advances without fearing American retaliation," states Gilder. And Congressman Steve King (R-Iowa) believes the Obama Nobel Prize could also affect the U.S. war effort in Afghanistan. "The president seems to be, let me say, 'indecisive' about the action he wants to order in Afghanistan," says King. "And I'm afraid that this Nobel Peace Prize will keep him from issuing the orders to reinforce the troops that are necessary to bring about a victory in Afghanistan." King finds it interesting that Obama was nominated for the Nobel Prize less than two weeks after he took office, when he would have had very little time to achieve great inroads of peace. The deadline for Nobel nominations was February 1, 2009; Obama took office on January 20.
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