[lbo-talk] Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize

Fernando Cassia fcassia at gmail.com
Fri Oct 9 10:38:45 PDT 2009


On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Ismail Lagardien <ilagardien at yahoo.com> wrote:


> But, I never, for once, was distracted from the fact that he was going to be president of the
> United States (yes, I was and I am guilty of generalising about the US president). I am not
> sorry, only a bit embarrassed (lest I am accused of saying I told you so) to say that I never > have expected much from the president of the United States in terms of foreign policy. I

> wrote exactly that months before he became president. I did not see any chance of him
> ending the wars any time soon.

Not only that... leaving the Middle East aside, I wonder if the Nobel Committee in Oslo watched the developments in Honduras, and the White House initial reactions -or lack thereof- after the coup.

FC



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