Cualquiera de las personas de esta lista hubiera sido más merecedora del Nobel que Obama (de hecho, leyendo a Raimondo uno está tentado a pensar que no es fácil encontrar a figuras públicas menos merecedoras que Obama).
Sima Samar, women’s rights activist in Afghanistan: “With dogged persistence and at great personal risk, she kept her schools and clinics open in Afghanistan even during the most repressive days of the Taliban regime, whose laws prohibited the education of girls past the age of eight. When the Taliban fell, Samar returned to Kabul and accepted the post of Minister for Women’s Affairs.”
Ingrid Betancourt: French-Colombian ex-hostage held for six years.
Dr. Denis Mukwege: Doctor, founder and head of Panzi Hospital in Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo. He has dedicated his life to helping Congolese women and girls who are victims of gang rape and brutal sexual violence.
Handicap International and Cluster Munition Coalition: “These organizations are recognized for their consistently serious efforts to clean up cluster bombs, also known as land mines. Innocent civilians are regularly killed worldwide because the unseen bombs explode when stepped upon.”
Hu Jia, a human rights activist and an outspoken critic of the Chinese government, who was sentenced last year to a three-and-a-half-year prison term for ‘inciting subversion of state power.’
Wei Jingsheng, who spent 17 years in Chinese prisons for urging reforms of China’s communist system. He now lives in the United States.
Daniel Rodríguez ha escrito sobre la noticia: El absurdo Nobel de la Paz.
He dejado este comentario:
Es como darle un Oscar a un actor por una película que aún no ha hecho. Quizás le motiva a hacer un buen papel, pero yo creo que el efecto inverso es más probable: no tiene tantos incentivos para hacer un buen papel, porque el Oscar ya se lo han dado. En este sentido el Nobel de la paz podría ser como un "perdón preventivo" a cualquier intervención militar o aumento de tropas etc. que Obama decida durante su mandato.
Tyler Cowen cree que el Nobel de la Paz puede hacer más difícil la consecuención de la paz:
Putting aside domestic responses, can holding a Peace Prize make it harder to bring about peace? I believe the answer is yes. The positive scenario is that holding the Prize signals strength and induces other bargainers to jump aboard your winning bandwagon, for fear of being locked out of an eventual agreement. The more negative scenario arises when the Prize holder is expected to pressure Country X, Ruritania. If the Prize holder secretly wishes to favor Ruritania in negotiations, a President without a Prize can to some extent feign or credibly signal weak bargaining power: "I'm sorry, Ruritania just won't budge; you'll have to move closer to their position." It's harder for the Prize holder to send this same signal, since everyone expects him to get Ruritania to budge (if not, the Prize holder also doesn't have any bargaining advantages either). The Prize holder may find it harder to deal with truly intransigient nations; fortunately we don't have many of those in the world right now.
Related arguments are that a Prize can make it harder to practice strategies of "creative ambiguity" or "low expectations."
David Frum, en cambio, opina que el Nobel neutraliza cualquier aspiración bélica que Obama pueda tener en el futuro.
That Nobel was not a gesture of Obama-worship by left-leaning Norwegians. It was the very opposite: It was a pre-emptive strike against Obama, an attempt to neutralize him. How can a Peace Nobelist strike Iranian nuclear plants? Or wage a protracted war in Afghanistan? Or tell the Palestinians, “Sorry, that’s the best offer, take it or leave it”? The hope of course is that he cannot.
Vía Antiwar.com dos titulares del LA Times sobre las reacciones de los afganos, aún en guerra, y de los paquistaníes, al borde de una:
Afghans puzzled by Obama's Nobel win: With the nation still wracked by violence and the president weighing a troop increase, the peace prize leaves people across the region scratching their heads.
Obama's Nobel puzzles Pakistanis living close to war: While Obama is seen as an improvement over Bush, many Pakistanis feel the president hasn't done enough to merit the peace prize. They are still wary of Obama and his policies.
Actualización: Barcepundit enlaza varias viñetas cómicas a propósito del Nobel a Obama.
