Is Obama's Nobel Prize a Preemptive Prize?
However, the Committee may just have made a very, very shrewd decision by giving the Peace Prize to an untested, handsome, boyish Black guy with vague traits of Martin Luther King. Perhaps the committee members are knowledgeable about the extent of the social misery affecting the US. Perhaps they have realized that political power in the US now is completely in the hands of the Pentagon, as Daniel Ellsberg suggested (“A Coup has Occurred,” 2007).
Perhaps the committee members knew about the awful power struggle, the existential crisis, the doubts, the despair raging inside the Washington DC Beltway. For that is what has been going on for some time now, a virtual civil war within the US ruling establishment.
Just one look at Obama will tell you this man is a special case. While political leaders generally tend to be either athletic or pycnic (stocky), Obama is clearly asthenic, or leptosomic: narrow shoulders, long neck, skinny and tall. The kind of person who would need extra support in order to carry the heavy burden of political responsibility. According to the five-temperament scheme, Obama would be a supine character, with secondary reactions, eager to serve and please and ready to take orders from above. The ideal person to act as figurehead for the secretive junta serving the interests of the Wall Street mafia and the military-industrial complex fused in the Pentagon.
Like other “Washington-watchers” the Norwegian Nobel Committee may have become scared at what they were seeing. For a nation as powerful and proud as the US, the kind of crisis it has been experiencing for some time now, is life-threatening. And we all know the US always looks for the solutions to its problems beyond its own borders. By blaming others, by blackmailing them, invading them, occupying them and destroying them. With Iran the target of US wrath, and with the constant saber-rattling coming out of Washington, the Norwegians must have been thinking they urgently needed to do something to prevent a world disaster.
By giving the Prize to Obama, the Norwegians may have hoped to put moral pressure on him. It would be quite difficult for a Nobel Peace Prize laureate to start a war against Iran. Therefore, the Prize should be considered as a kind of “Preemptive Prize.”
Moreover, with the prize, the Obama's prestige would grow, his spine would get extra support and his shoulders might become just a bit broader. Who knows, with enough support from the outside world (the “Rest of the World,” or ROW) Obama might even stand up to his handlers.
Hans Vogel
