Two perfect ambassadors of peace

[airiefairie]

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[nairiporter]

This year's selections certainly bring focus back into the Nobel peace prize. Things had started to get rather ridiculous in recent years.

[abomvubuso]

Correct, Obama was granted the award by the Nobel peace committee in the naive hope that that'd prompt him to reconsider his approach to international politics and adopt a more reconciliatory and peaceful approach. Of course there's no way that this would happen even if he wanted it very badly, because the world is not the fairy tale that some of these guys might be imagining in their heads, and sometimes tackling a problem with force turns out to be the least detrimental option in the long run, especially if the alternative is letting thousands if not millions of people to die or suffer enormous oppression before things somehow get back to normal "on their own".

[yes_justice]

She told Obama to stop drone striking. That was cool.

http://gawker.com/malala-yousafzai-meets-president-obama-asks-him-to-sto-1444350645

[airiefairie]

And he will definitely listen. Like one Nobel Peace Prize laureate to another, right? =)

[yes_justice]

No, he didn't listen.

Sorry I'm Just Reminded of This

[rimpala]

For whatever reason my Firefox started going to Yahoo.com as a homepage so whenever I open it I'm faced with it's news feed. One article was on surfaced atrocities by the Assad government and your typical depressing comments in the comment section, one having several thumbs-up reading "As long as it's Muslims killing Muslims I don't care!"

And for some reason it just kind of threw me back, it makes me wonder if that's the mindset of the average westerner, to literally discount these people as humans, despite what articles like this show.