{"id":1214,"date":"2009-10-09T09:25:23","date_gmt":"2009-10-09T13:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=1214"},"modified":"2009-10-09T11:26:16","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T15:26:16","slug":"reagan-won-the-cold-war-without-firing-a-shot-but-no-nobel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/1214\/reagan-won-the-cold-war-without-firing-a-shot-but-no-nobel\/","title":{"rendered":"Reagan Won the Cold War Without Firing a Shot… But No Nobel"},"content":{"rendered":"

“This is the first time the award is given for wishful thinking.”<\/p>\n

Those were the words of Israeli Knesset member Danny Danon<\/a> upon receiving word that Barack Obama won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. Who knew that Saturday Night Live’s<\/em> parody of Obama<\/a> admitting that he had done absolutely nothing so far in office would prove so prescient?<\/p>\n

This bizarre and absurd decision by the Nobel committee, of course, follows earlier awards to such towering architects of peace as PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat in 1994<\/a>…\u00a0 Six years before he commenced the bloody intifada against Israel in 2000.\u00a0 In contrast, Ronald Reagan led the free world to victory in the Cold War without firing a shot against the Soviet Union, freeing hundreds of millions of human beings and ending the looming threat of a global nuclear holocaust, but never seemed to gain sufficient esteem within the minds of the Nobel committee.\u00a0 One can only speculate about the true basis on which this now-discredited award is given, but it certainly isn’t for tangible results in achieving peace.\u00a0 If that was the basis, they could just as easily rename it the Reagan-Thatcher-Pope John Paul II Peace Prize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“This is the first time the award is given for wishful thinking.” Those were the words of Israeli Knesset member Danny Danon upon receiving word that Barack Obama won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. Who knew that Saturday Night Live’s parody of Obama admitting that he had done absolutely nothing so far in office would […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[263,264,24],"class_list":["post-1214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-arafat","tag-nobel-peace-prize","tag-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1214"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1225,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214\/revisions\/1225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}