It is embarrassing to watch Republicans lift the soggy, fetid moss they’re hiding under long enough to stage a mini pageant of mock righteous indignation on President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize. What a bunch of knuckle heads. They’re always angry about something.
Is the Prize Committee trying to encourage the cause of peace? Sure they are. Is it premature? Yep, but it is done. Let’s take it and make it work for peace. Somebody needs to try promote peace without the use of mechanized infantry or drones packing hellfire missiles or cluster bombs. Modern warfare is a form of pornography that gratifies the deepest and darkest of bloodlusts. We need to recalculate the guns vs butter equation.
Lamentations on Chemistry 
There are a number of right wing “leaders” who have publicly stated their desire to keep the Obama administration from getting anything done. Of course they are upset that he is being recognized. It gets in the way of the plan to “Carterize” the president by blocking every initiative he puts forward and then casting him as an ineffectual leader.
We should all recognize that the end of the Bush administration and the start of the Obama administration was a hopeful moment for many people in the world. The sense that the clouds would part and a new day would dawn is reflected in this prize. It also serves as a reminder to the Obama administration of how much the hope of the world has been place on their shoulders.
October 2009
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/10/06/afghanistan.us.deadly.fight/index.html
“The base, in an eastern Afghanistan valley, was surrounded by ridge lines where the insurgents were able to fire down at U.S. and Afghan troops.”
April 1954
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Dien_Bien_Phu
“Viet Minh’s possession of heavy artillery (including anti-aircraft guns) and their ability to move such weapons to the mountain crests overlooking the French encampment.”
Peace in our time.